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How common is Chronic Pain?
What is Chronic Pain? Chronic pain is when you have pain every day for at least 3 months. How many people experience Chronic Pain? Almost 20% of Australians surveyed had chronic pain. That's over 5 million Australians! Highest number: 31% of females aged 80-84, 27% of males aged 65-69. Most affected by it: 84% of females and 76% of males aged 20-24 with chronic pain said it interfered with their daily lives. These numbers are growing every year. Left untreated, it leads to more health problems, including depression, anxiety, as well as affecting daily living. Laser Acupuncture treatment can...
How does Acupuncture work for Chronic Pain?
Acupuncture is a branch of Chinese medicine that aims to create balance and harmony of the energy in the body, which is called qi. This balance in Western medicine is known as homeostasis. There is a famous saying in Chinese medicine that guides all treatments for pain: "Where there is free flow, there is no pain, Where there is no free flow, there is pain." The body functions best in homeostasis, and is always trying to get back to that state. Acupuncture uses points on the body that are theorised to be connected together in a larger network, which can be used to remove these blocks to...
How’s laser different from needle Acupuncture?
Lots of people wonder why I use lasers in my Acupuncture treatment instead of the traditional needles. Acupuncture treatments in Australia typically use single-use sterilised stainless steel needles. These are the same needles that are used in dry needling treatments. They are effective in treating all sorts of problems, but at Adelaide Laser Acupuncture I tend to use infra-red lasers for most treatments. This is because the cold lasers I use have been shown to be effective in decreasing pain, increasing circulation, speeding up wound healing and decreasing inflammation. It also requires...
Why Vitamin D is important for your health
Why is Vitamin D important? Many Australians assume that their level of Vitamin D is not an issue, because we are lucky to have so much sunlight in the land down under. However, effective education of the risks of skin cancer has caused most Australians to properly cover their body and use sunscreen outdoors. Though this is important to avoid skin cancer, it also prevents the body from being able to produce Vitamin D from sunlight. This problem gets worse as we get older as older skin becomes naturally less effective at this conversion. This means that many Australians actually have low...