Sciatica Acupuncture Relief
Acupuncture For Sciatic Pain
Our Melbourne Location is in Moonee Ponds
Wondering if acupuncture is the right therapy for you? We get it!
Many of our clients find their way to us because conventional medicine wasn’t the right solution for them and acupuncture was the last thing to try.
If you need help with Sciatic Pain – You are in the right place!
Acupuncture For Sciatic Nerve Pain
Acupuncture for Sciatica
Acupuncture for sciatica treatment can help with pain relief and management.
Our natural treatments aim to reduce inflammation and nerve pressure and may reduce your sciatica pain. We treat the symptoms (pain, numbness, tingling)
Our sciatica treatments are gentle and don’t use any jarring or sudden movements so you feel comfortable during and after your treatment.
We use a combination of multiple treatment techniques. They include sciatica acupuncture, manipulation, supplements, diet, special exercises and lifestyle advice. By not limiting treatments to one particular type, we are better able to tailor treatment to your particular situation.
We treat the whole person not just the problem area. Sciatica pain can come from a herniated disc, dislocated hip, osteoarthritis and pressure from the uterus during pregnancy.
It can also come from irritation and inflammation and poor Kidney function (from a Chinese medicine perspective).
That said it can be made worse through your choices of food, lifestyle, types of exercise and posture. Finding out what is causing your sciatica pain and treating it successfully means we have to treat you in a holistic way.
If you have general muscle or joint pain then also see fibromyalgia. *For evidence of how acupuncture can help with pain relief and management go here.
Causes of Back Pain
Sciatica acupuncture aims to deliver three treatment effects:
See how Acupuncture works here.
How We Treat Your Sciatica
How we treat you will depend on our assessment of your particular situation. However, we use a range of treatment modalities to achieve the best result for you.
Cupping
We may use Chinese cupping techniques to remove stagnation and tension, and promote blood flow to the areas of sciatica pain. Cupping is a often used along-side acupuncture.
Manipulation
We use gentle manipulation techniques which aim to relieve pressure, tightness and inflammation to directly reduce sciatica pain and discomfort. We do not use any sudden or wrenching movements so you feel comfortable during and after.
Sciatic Nerve Pain Treatments
Exercises For Sciatic Healing
We may recommend some specific exercises for you to strengthen weak areas, reduce tension in tight areas and increase your range of motion. These help to improve and maintain the improvements we achieve for you during your treatments. Exercises may include Qigong.
An Alternative To Drugs And Surgery
Nerve pain is notoriously difficult to treat with standard manual therapies and medications.
Medications (over-the-counter analgesics, non-steroidal anti-inflammatories (NSAID) and epidural steroidal injections) may only mask the pain temporarily. They may not specifically deal with the primary cause of the pain.
Long-term use of pain killers and anti-inflammatory drugs may cause other health problems. Other common side effects of NSAIDs include gastrointestinal problems, raised liver enzymes, diarrhoea, headache, dizziness, salt and fluid retention and high blood pressure.
Surgery may or may not help your sciatica pain. Surgery is a highly invasive, and often expensive and painful option that may come with long recovery times. In our opinion, surgery should be viewed as a last resort.
Our treatments aim to reduce inflammation and nerve pressure and reprogram your pain pathways to reduce or eliminate your sciatica pain.
Evidence of how acupuncture can assist with pain relief and management is here.
If you have general muscle or joint pain then also see fibromyalgia. *For evidence of how acupuncture can help with pain relief and management go here.
