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The
Acupuncture BACK PAIN Clinic
Low Back Pain (LBP) affects
up to 80% of all people at some time during their lives and has a significant
economic impact on individuals and on society.* LBP is considered to
be one of the UK's main reasons for work-related sickness absence,
causing millions of lost working days every year.
Acupuncture and Government Guidelines
So very successful has acupuncture been in helping LBP, that in May
2009, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE),
published its official Guidelines on: The Management of Persistent Non-Specific
Low Back Pain, stating that they considered acupuncture to be one of
the most effective treatments available, to help alleviate this painful
and debilitating condition, which affects so many people.
Acupuncture
and Back Pain
For the classically trained acupuncture
practitioner, it is not just enough to effect a short-term remedy, but
rather, to try to create the physiological and psychological environment
for a patient to be as fit and healthy as they can be, on a longer-term
basis.
Therefore, although Back Pain and /or Sciatica (pain down
one or both legs), affects only a part of the body, the Oriental approach
to disease is to look at the whole person and the many different factors
that may be affecting their life, such as their lifestyle, diet, family
history, exercise regime and emotional state. The main objectives
of an acupuncture treatment programme is firstly, to alleviate the presenting
pain and discomfort, and secondly, to strengthen a patient's overall
constitution. This is in order to minimise the possibility of a re-occurrence
of the presenting complaint.
2012 Acupuncture
Treatment Offer ...
If you are suffering from either
chronic or acute Back Pain and/or Sciatica, acupuncture may be able
to help? Between Jan-Dec 2012, receive a 10% discount on an acupuncture
course of treatment with a Doctors Letter of Referral.**
*World
Health Organisation - HEN Report - 2000.
** A standard course of treatment consists of 6 sessions. If further
treatment is required, then the regular fee will apply.
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