Chronic Pain Treatment in Boone, NC

The MRI shows it clearly - a disc is bulging, herniated, or degenerating. It's pressing on a nerve root, causing the radiating arm pain, the neck stiffness, the numbness in the fingers. Or the lower back version: the disc pressing on the nerve that sends pain down the leg. You have a diagnosis. What you may not have is a clear path forward that doesn't involve surgery or long-term pain management. Spinal disc pathology is one of the most common reasons people come to Tom Eddi

The reason sciatica recurs is that most treatment addresses the nerve irritation without addressing the underlying tissue environment that produced it... The inflammatory environment that sensitized the nerve persists at a subclinical level, primed to flare again under sufficient provocation... Treatment for sciatica at Whispering Waters works on three levels simultaneously: the nerve itself, the surrounding soft tissues, and the systemic environment that either supports or i

Acupuncture and Chinese medicine have proven to be effective for many people who suffer from sciatica. This condition, which is...