Assessing your knee pain
In your preliminary visit with an expert of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), your wellness professional will take an extensive background and look for the precise root cause of your pain through considerable screening.
By discovering the precise location of your discomfort, and by establishing whether there are actions which alleviate or worsen your pain, we are able to better determine which framework it is triggering your discomfort, whether it be from your bones, joints, or one of the other soft tissue frameworks of your knee such as muscular tissues, ligaments or tendons.
Identifying the precise framework which is triggering your discomfort is important to ensure that we can develop a therapy strategy which is distinct to you, including that of personalised Chinese medicine for joint pain, and consequently, if needed, you may be sent for more conclusive screening such as an X-Ray, CT or MRI.
TCM’s approach to inflammation
Thanks to inflammation our body can respond to some type of hazardous stimuli. Swelling is the body’s all-natural reaction to contamination, trauma or disharmony. The Inflammation sets off the body’s immune system to begin a healing procedure. Generally this leads to homeostasis, a back to typical body, but in some cases, our own body immune system does not turn off, this is when we have over reactions like an allergy or an asthma strike.
As we understand, inflammation can induce inflammation, aching, swelling, perhaps a sensation of heat. Some people experience swelling only after injury, and others sadly withstand this everyday. We now recognize that long term inflammation in the body can additionally cause illness.
In some cases the trigger cell systems normally used in defence to something “hazardous” periodically over reacts and does not switch off. Health problems such as joint inflammation, asthma, Crohn’s disease, Irritable Bowel disorder, MS, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid joint inflammation, herpes and much more are persistent disharmonies or inflammatory health problems. For that reason, it is important to understand a little concerning this mechanism.
The origin of inflammation has 2 origins
Non-infectious factors/ Exterior aspect
- Physical: burns, physical injury or
- injury, foreign bodies (a thorn)
- Insect or animal bites
- Parasites (Gu pattern in TCM)
- Chemical: too much glucose, fats, toxins, alcohol
- Organic: harmed cells
- Mental: excessive excitement
Infectious factors/Internal variables
- Microorganisms
- Viruses (colds or flu can result in inflammation, in the sinuses, ears, nose and throat)
- Post viral (Xiao Yang pattern TCM, the virus remains such as Shingles)
- Microorganisms (Candida overgrowth, Damp and Stagnation pattern TCM)
Common treatment methods
Based upon the type of Bone Bi inducing the joint pain, the TCM treatment strategy will likely involve a combination of:
- Acupuncture
- Electro-acupuncture
- Scraping
- Moxa (Moxibustion)
- Cupping
- Organic Medicine
- Massage therapy
The final thought is, as a result, that these may well match medical treatment for arthritis, with psychological and functional advantages at least over the short-term. More study is needed to clarify their period of benefit and mode of action.