Fibromyalgia and Pain

Larisa Turin has unique experience in using Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture to provide relief from Fibromialgia and Pain. She treats Fibromialgia and Pain with Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture in her AcupunctureChicago clinic with locations in Chicago and Northbrook.

TWO KEYS TO SUCCESS WITH ACUPUNCTURE TREATMENT

1 - Find the Best Acupuncturist

2– Follow the Advice

The success of your Acupuncture treatment depends on the experience and skills of your acupuncturist. You must find the best acupuncturist to achieve the best results.

Larisa Turin has the unique combination of education and experience. No other acupuncturist in Chicago or suburbs has a comparable education and experience.

Every graduate of a Traditional Chinese/Oriental Medicine college knows the location of acupuncture points. But this hardly will result in successful treatment of most conditions.

There is A SECRET that a student does not learn from the books. The key to success is the knowledge of the centuries old treatment recipes. The SECRET KNOWLEDGE is the centuries old combination of points that an acupuncturist should stimulate in treating a particular condition. Larisa Turin has learned the SECRETS and recipes that were passed from one generation of practitioners to the next through personal old-fashioned apprenticeship with Far East practitioners.

Larisa Turin has received an extensive personal apprenticeship from Chinese and Mongolian practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine.  This experience combined with her educational background assures that she is the one with the skills necessary to make dreams come true in the application of acupuncture techniques.

The effectiveness of Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine in treating Fibromialgia and Pain has been proven experimentally and scientifically as reflected in the following publications.

Peripheral effects of needle stimulation (acupuncture) on skin and muscle blood flow in fibromyalgia.

Sandberg M, Lindberg LG, Gerdle B. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Linkoping University, Linkoping SE-581 85, Sweden. J Spinal Cord Med. 2003 Spring;26(1):21-6.

Acupuncture has become a widely used treatment modality in various musculoskeletal pain conditions. Acupuncture is also shown to enhance blood flow and recovery in surgical flaps. The mechanisms behind the effect on blood flow were suggested to rely on vasoactive substances, such as calcitonin gene-related peptide, released from nociceptors by the needle stimulation. In a previous study on healthy subjects, one needle stimulation into the anterior tibial muscle was shown to increase both skin and muscle blood flow. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of needle stimulation on local blood flow in the anterior tibial muscle and overlying skin in patients suffering from a widespread chronic pain condition. Fifteen patients with fibromyalgia (FM) participated in the study. Two modes of needling, deep muscle stimulation and subcutaneous needle insertion were performed at the upper anterior aspect of the tibia, i.e., in an area without focal pathology or ongoing pain in these patients. Blood flow changes were assessed non-invasively by photoplethysmography (PPG). The results of the present study were partly similar to those earlier found at a corresponding site in healthy female subjects, i.e., deep muscle stimulation resulted in larger increase in skin blood flow (mean (SE)): 62.4% (13.0) and muscle blood flow: 93.1% (18.6), compared to baseline, than did subcutaneous insertion (mean (SE) skin blood flow increase: 26.4% (6.2); muscle blood flow increase: 46.1% (10.2)). However, in FM patients subcutaneous needle insertion was followed by a significant increase in both skin and muscle blood flow, in contrast to findings in healthy subjects where no significant blood flow increase was found following the subcutaneous needling. The different results of subcutaneous needling between the groups (skin blood flow: [Formula: see text]; muscle blood flow: [Formula: see text] ) may be related to a greater sensitivity to pain and other somatosensory input in FM.
Eur J Pain. 2004;8(2):163-71.
PMID: 14987626 [PubMed - in process]

Acupuncture as a promising treatment for below-level central neuropathic pain: a retrospective study.

Rapson LM, Wells N, Pepper J, Majid N, Boon H. Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Lyndhurst Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: Below-level central neuropathic pain, a diffuse pain characterized by generalized burning, is commonly experienced by individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of an electro-acupuncture protocol for the treatment of below-level central neuropathic pain developed at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Lyndhurst Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. METHOD: Retrospective chart review. RESULTS: Thirty-six individuals with traumatic and nontraumatic SCI met the inclusion criteria. Of these, 24 showed improvement after treatment with the electro-acupuncture protocol. Type of injury, level of injury, and duration of below-level central neuropathic pain was not correlated with improvement. However, individuals whose pain was described as bilateral (vs unilateral; P = 0.014) or symmetric (vs nonsymmetric; P = 0.026) were more likely to improve after acupuncture treatment. Overall, patients whose burning pain was bilateral, symmetric, and constant (P = 0.005) were the most likely to improve. CONCLUSION: This retrospective study suggests that the Lyndhurst Center Central Neuropathic Pain Acupuncture Protocol may be an effective treatment option for patients with SCI who are experiencing below-level central neuropathic pain. Additional prospective clinical studies are needed to confirm these findings.

PMID: 12830964 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]