Acupuncture And Pregnancy | Elite Spine Totowa NJ

Is Acupuncture Safe During Pregnancy?


Is Acupuncture Safe During Pregnancy? | Elite Spine & Sports Care Totowa NJ

It’s always a good idea to learn whether treatments you are undergoing and the medicines you are taking are safe for your health as well as your baby’s health. Although non-invasive, Acupuncture is not an exception to that rule. Expectant mothers want the best for their child, and everything that is consumed, or done by a mother affects the baby’s well-being. Oftentimes, mothers will do endless research while pregnant to see what exercises they can and cannot do, what medications they can take, and what foods they should be eating. That raises an important question, is Acupuncture safe during pregnancy?

Acupuncture is commonly used to treat pain but also helps with allergies, headaches, depression, insomnia, and anxiety, among many other conditions. Acupuncture stimulates the central nervous system, releasing biochemical signals which helps trigger the body’s natural healing processes. Because this treatment is non-invasive and non-medicinal it is considered safe for a pregnant woman!

So, How Can Acupuncture Provide Relief For Pregnant Women?

One of the biggest benefits of acupuncture during pregnancy is that it can ease nausea. Oftentimes, nausea plague pregnant women and the opportunity to face it with acupuncture is typically welcome. General aches and pains are another side effect of pregnancy that is hard to avoid. But these aches and pains can be solved in as little as one acupuncture treatment. The opportunity to stimulate the central nervous systems through pressure points enables the body to repair itself naturally. Acupuncture gives women the ability to avoid pain medications through their pregnancy while still feeling great!

Learn More About Acupuncture During Pregnancy

Elite Spine and Sports Care offers a full range of acupuncture treatments in our Totowa Acupuncture location. Contact our team today to learn more about how acupuncture can help ease your pregnancy-related ailments. We would be happy to help you through understanding how acupuncture can help you during your pregnancy as well as the safety of performing acupuncture during the course of your pregnancy.

Acupuncture & Sports Injuries

Acupuncture for Athletes, How Acupuncture can Help with Sports Injuries


Passaic New Jersey acupuncturistsHow Acupuncture Can Help with Sports Injuries | Elite Spine & Sports Care

Acupuncture for athletes is a growing trend.  Many athletes are beginning to learn how acupuncture can help with sports injuries. The Passaic County acupuncturists at Elite Spine and Sports Care of Totowa are well trained to work with athletes of all types. Our acupuncturists address individual needs, with an eye on easing their pain and getting them back on the field, court or track.

What Is Acupuncture For Sports Injuries?

The technique of acupuncture involves needles being placed along pressure points that access the body’s meridians. When placed, the nervous system senses an injury and begins sending signals to the brain that there is damage. These signals create a biochemical reaction that promotes healing to specific areas. Acupuncture essentially reminds the body that you have an injury, and that it needs to be healed. Because it uses your body’s own chemical reactions, acupuncture is a safe, non-invasive healing technique for treating injuries.

Acupuncture is helpful treating sprains, strains, joint pain, swollen muscles, and muscle aches, among other issues. In fact, acupuncture can also help ward off any of these issues by stimulating the muscles and joints typically strained by an individual athlete’s particular sport. Acupuncture can also increase flexibility for athletes. This is why acupuncture can be seen as a treatment that not only heals but also enables a body to perform optimally.

Sports acupuncture is growing in popularity

Sports acupuncture in New Jersey is growing quickly. Since it has been proven to help trigger the body’s natural ability to heal, it is grabbing the attention of athletes everywhere. With the growing awareness of the issues that traditional pain medicine can cause, athletes are looking for alternatives. Because acupuncture uses your body’s healing mechanisms, these injuries can be healed without the use of pain medication. In addition, Acupuncture has been recognized to help injuries to heal quicker than when treated with other methods.  This non-invasive technique can also be used to stimulate the body for injury prevention as well.

Learn more about acupuncture for athletes from Elite Spine & Sports Care of Totowa

Contact our team at Elite Spine and Sports Care of Totowa today to learn more about what acupuncture can do to treat your aches and pains. We welcome the opportunity to get you familiar with acupuncture while helping you understand how acupuncture can help you as an athlete. Whether you play a sport professionally, or as an amateur we welcome the opportunity to help you learn more about acupuncture for athletes.