Treating foot pain allows you to move forward in your cure of fibromyalgia

Self-care, and lifestyle choices, play a key role in curing your fibromyalgia and reducing the daily pain that you live with, in your feet and other parts of your body, but treatment from a healthcare professional, such as an acupuncturist, can make a world of difference.

One healthcare professional who can provide effective treatment for foot pain is a licensed acupuncturist.

Acupuncture

Treating foot pain and heel pain, in Traditional Chinese Medicine, can be facilitated through acupuncture, or a combination of acupuncture and herbs very effectively.

The pattern, diagnosed and treated by the acupuncturist, will vary, depending on your specific symptoms and history.

Pain, in Chinese Medicine, is often due to stagnation of energy, or energy that is not flowing freely through the channels of the body. This can be due to stagnation of the Qi in the Liver or Gallbladder channels, or damp accumulation that slows or stops the free flow of the energy.

Your practitioner will determine the pattern causing your pain, when talking with you, feeling your pulse and looking at your tongue (all diagnostic techniques).

Heel pain may reflect a deficiency of the kidney energy. This does NOT mean kidney disease. It means the energy that flows in the kidney channel of the body is deficient. The acupuncturist can address this by prescribing raw or patent herbs, along with acupuncture treatments.

In treating foot pain, the practioner would treat the deficiency, and move the stagnant energy, through the placement of thin needles at appropriate points on the body.

Acupuncture is generally painless. Of the different types of acupuncture, Japanese, especially ion pumping cord, is the most gentle, although TCM, Traditional Chinese Acupuncture, can also be gentle if the needles are not stimulated. Some practitioners stimulate the needles after insertion, by moving them slightly, others do not. You can request they do not stimulate the needles.

Your acupuncturist can also show you the specific points on your body where you can apply pressure - acupressure - to self treat. So, this way, you can continue to treating foot pain yourself, in between your regulary scheduled acupuncture appointments.

You may get immediate results, a reduction or elimination of pain in your feet, or it may take several treatments.

Results vary from patient to patient. Most treatment protocols start out with 8 - 10 treatments. Even after the pain is resolved, follow-on treatments are important in order to "set" the new movement of energy. Your acupuncturist will talk with you about the best approach for YOU in your healing efforts.

It is very important that you follow the treatment protocol prescribed by your acupuncturist, which can include recommendations related to diet, exercise, self care, lifestyle and herbs.

Acupuncture has been shown to reduce pain in many research studies and is recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Treating foot pain with acupuncture will not only treat the pain in your feet, but will also address many of your other symptoms at the same time.