WASHINGTON (TND) — Chronic pain can be treated with a variety of non-pharmacological treatments, including daily medications, and there is also evidence that alternative Eastern medicines, such as acupuncture, may be effective in treating symptoms after a stroke.
Dr. Joseph Varon, president and chief medical officer of the FLCCC Alliance, discussed the issue with The National Desk’s Jan Jeffcoat on Monday.
“Acupuncture and Oriental medicine have been around for thousands of years and are proven to work. It’s hard for me to tell you how it works because I’m a Western physician and it’s hard to figure out the exact mechanisms,” he said, “but at some point, acupuncture brings the energy into balance with what’s called yin and yang, good energy and bad energy, and brings you right in the middle.”
Varon suffered a stroke, but her daughter’s learning of acupuncture helped her to alleviate the symptoms of post-stroke neurological damage and achieve some recovery.
He is now incorporating Oriental medicine into his practice and says he is seeing great results.
“After the stroke, I was in a lot of pain. I had neurological damage from the stroke, and all the doctors wanted to put me on all kinds of narcotics, and I said, no, I’m not going to do any of them,” Varon said. “So I went to acupuncture, and it helped with the pain.”
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