Pain

Pain symptoms can be relieved by acupuncture & herbs, both acute and chronic, from headaches to lower back pain, or tennis elbow to plantar fasciitis.

Claire Truss has studied with Bob Doane, Philip Weeks, Dr Anthony Lombardi, Richard Hazel, Dr Jeremy Steiner and Chris Volesky.  She performs a physical assessment based on Dr Lombardi’s EXSTORE® system to identify areas of pain, tension and restricted movement and practices a combination of local Motor Point  and trigger point (dry needling) acupuncture, along with Distal Needling Acupuncture, Dr Tan’s Balance Method, Master Tung, Auricular and Electro Acupuncture.

So don’t be alarmed if treatment for a stiff neck is by placing needles in your ankle or treatment for elbow pain includes the treatment of neck and shoulders!

“He who treats the site of pain is often lost”

Dr. Karel Lewit, Neurologist

Claire has also studied kinesiology sports taping with David Rhodes, and will apply taping where appropriate.

Research

Research into neck pain found that:

“acupuncture is a cost-effective treatment strategy in patients with chronic neck pain.”(Willich 2006)

Research into back pain concluded that:

“acupuncture is significantly better than no treatment and at least as good as (if not better than) standard medical care for back pain” (Witt 2006; Haake 2007; Cherkin 2009; Sherman 2009a)

Research into chronic pain identified that:

“Stimulation of certain acupuncture points has been shown to affect areas of the brain that are known to reduce sensitivity to pain and stress, as well as promoting relaxation and deactivating the ‘analytical’ brain, which is responsible for anxiety” (Wu 1999)

General research shows acupuncture to:

Reduce “inflammation, by promoting release of vascular and immunomodulatory factors ”                             (Kavoussi 2007, Zijlstra 2003);

Improve “muscle stiffness and joint mobility by increasing local microcirculation , which aids dispersal of swelling.” (Komori 2009)

For further reading on research, please see the research factsheets, by condition, produced by the British Acupuncture Council.

https://acupuncture.org.uk/about-acupuncture/acupuncture-research/