Red Pony Medicine
  • Home
  • About
    • The Story Behind the Name
    • About Christina
    • My Practice
  • My Services
    • Acupuncture >
      • FAQs
    • Shiatsu (Acupressure)
    • Qigong
    • EFT / Tapping
    • Classes
  • Scheduling
    • Scheduling
    • Location
  • Rates
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Home
  • About
    • The Story Behind the Name
    • About Christina
    • My Practice
  • My Services
    • Acupuncture >
      • FAQs
    • Shiatsu (Acupressure)
    • Qigong
    • EFT / Tapping
    • Classes
  • Scheduling
    • Scheduling
    • Location
  • Rates
  • Blog
  • Contact

I Need Surgery. Can Acupuncture Help Afterwards?

6/6/2016

 
Yes, gosh, yes! Acupuncture is helpful before and after surgery.  Especially if you’re nervous before surgery (who isn’t, right?) schedule an acupuncture appointment a week before and it will calm your nerves and help you can get some sleep before your procedure. It will also boost your immune system- you want to be the healthiest you can before surgery so you can have a speedy recovery.

After surgery, acupuncture will help reduce postoperative pain and side effects from anesthesia (nausea and vomiting) and pain medications (constipation).

It is also very effective at treating and reducing scars. After your surgical scars have started healing, I can needle around or under the scar to help prevent adhesions from forming.

Since rest and sleep are essential when recovering from surgery, acupuncture will help you relax so you get the sleep you need for your body to heal.

If there is rehabilitation involved, it’s okay to still get acupuncture- in fact, I recommend that my patients in rehab come the day after they have rehab since acupuncture can help with any soreness after exercises.

So if you’re planning to have surgery, consider having acupuncture before and after the surgery. Study after study has shown you’ll recover more quickly and require fewer pain medications if you do.  

Read more here:
https://www.acufinder.com/Acupuncture+Information/Detail/Acupuncture+Pre+and+Post+Surgery

Comments are closed.

    Archives

    December 2021
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    February 2015

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Red Pony Medicine
1930 Tamarack Road
​Newark, Ohio 43055
​503-724-2790