Can acupuncture help chronic knee pain?

After sharing my embarrassing story last week, I’ve had a number of people ask me if acupuncture can also help chronic knee pain too. In many cases, the answer is yes! 

A lot of people think that chronic pain is just something they have to "get used to." Especially if the pain has been going on for a decade or more, they start to assume it's part of their life now. 

But acupuncture can be incredibly helpful in reducing daily knee pain as well as flare-ups. If you have knee pain that: 

• Changes with the weather, such as getting worse with cold and/or rain and snow 

• Gets worse with overuse, like long walks or standing for long periods at work 

• Prevents you from climbing stairs comfortably or kneeling in your garden 

• Is from an old injury that never really went away... 

Then I definitely recommend trying acupuncture! 

It's a gentle treatment AND you get to take a nap. 

Typically for chronic knee pain I recommend coming in once a week for 6-8 weeks, and then we try to space the treatments out a bit, to see if you can go 2-3 weeks or a month, and still feel great. 

With chronic pain, maintenance treatments are also incredibly helpful to prevent flare ups. After an initial round of treatments, once a month is a great treatment plan to keep you feeling good. 

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