Acupuncture excels in the treatment of pain and injuries - sports, work, car accident and post operative pain.  If you have suffered an injury, want to avoid surgery, or would like to speed your recovery from a necessary surgery acupuncture can help.

I use a combination of traditional acupuncture styles along with motor point therapy, trigger point needling, and intramuscular stimulation in my practice to help people in different ways.  
 
Traditional acupuncture can alleviate pain, reduce swelling and inflammation, improve strength as well as function. Trigger point needling and intramuscular stimulation can reduce muscle tension and pain. Motor point therapy can actually change the length of the muscle and getting it firing again properly. Effectively combing these techniques is one of the quickest ways to restore muscle balance and function. 
In my personal experience and in treating many, many injuries that blending traditional styles with anatomical based needling techniques gives the patient the best of both worlds. It addresses the injury on many levels, simultaneously.

Whiplash injury is the most common injury suffered from a motor vehicle accident. Whiplash is an injury to the soft tissue of the neck, also referred to as neck sprain or neck strain. It is often caused by a sudden forceful movement of the neck, but with no direct contact to the neck. It may include injury to the joints, discs, ligaments, cervical muscles, and nerve roots. Acupuncture is one possible treatment for this type of injury. 

Hyperextension of the neck upon impact results in a number of capillaries and tissue fibres being broken, which, if left alone, can cause scar tissue development. In many cases, abnormalities can not be viewed upon x-ray and there is no visible injury. As a result, the seriousness of an injury is often initially overlooked. Acupuncture can be beneficial in resorting circulation, eliminating inflammation and speed the healing process - shortening your recovery time and reducing your pain.