How does acupuncture treat knee pain

When the weather turns cold, some elderly people with arthritis or who did not pay attention to their health when they were young will experience knee pain. Winter is especially the peak season for knee pain. If you don't pay attention to keeping warm or it rains, the pain will be unbearable. It really makes the whole family worried, and the general treatment methods are not very effective. At this time, some patients want to know how acupuncture can treat knee pain?

During home care, use moxa sticks to moxibustion the Erling, Zusanli, Neiwai Dubi, Heding, Yinshi and other acupoints around the knee joint. Patients with knee pain due to dampness have pain in a specific location and feel heaviness and discomfort in the knee joints or even in both lower limbs. The joints are swollen or deformed, or stiff and difficult to flex or extend. They like warmth and pressure, and the pain worsens at night and eases slightly after activity. The affected limbs are afraid of cold. The treatment principle is to warm the yang and eliminate dampness, unblock menstruation and relieve pain.

Acupoints: Dazhui, Zhongwan, Guanyuan, Quchi, Yinlingquan, Yanglingquan, Zusanli, Neiwai Dubi, Yinshi. The nature of dampness is stickiness, and the treatment process is slow. It is difficult to cure it in a short period of time. You must have confidence and formulate reasonable long-term prevention and treatment measures. As mentioned earlier, the fundamental reason why wind, cold and dampness invade the human body is the lack of positive energy in the body.

1. Moxibustion box treatment: Use a single-eye moxibustion box or a double-eye moxibustion box, or hold two moxa sticks in your hand to start moxibustion at the painful or swollen area, around the knee joint, local tender points, and kidney points. If there is a feeling of heat or slight heat and it can be transmitted along the meridians and spread to the surroundings, this means that the Qi has arrived and is effective. And observe whether there is any sensation when the Qi reaches the point? Is there any continuous sensation? For the Shenshu points, use two moxa sticks to apply moxibustion on both Shenshu points. The patient can feel the heat spreading around and transmitted to the lower limbs. Some patients can feel it spreading to the knee joints. If the sensation cannot reach the knee joint, you can light another moxa stick and place it at the distal end of the sensation to continue the sensation transmission. The knee joint and Shenshu are the main acupoints for moxibustion. Observe the transmission route and ensure the continuity of transmission.

2. Use self-adhesive moxibustion particles. Stick two or three of them directly on the painful or swollen area, light them at one time, and moxibustion each acupoint 2-3 times. The same sensation is present at the Shenshu point.

3. For the moxibustion site, you can choose acupoints according to your own pain site, that is, take pain as the transmission point, or take warmth, sourness, numbness, swelling, coolness, etc. as the acupoints, which are the moxibustion points. Moxibustion does not necessarily require accurate acupoints, but mainly requires sensory transmission, which is what we call the arrival of qi in acupuncture. The same is true for moxibustion. Having these feelings is also the result of the arrival of qi.

4. After moxibustion, it is best to massage the affected area or massage along the meridians. Everyone's discomfort is different. You should massage the three yang or three yin meridians of the foot in the legs according to your own discomfort.

Acupuncture is very helpful in treating knee pain because there are many acupuncture points throughout the human body. Acupuncture or massage has different effects on different acupoints. At the same time, patients can use some traditional Chinese medicine treatments to deal with knee pain, which is also very helpful in treating this chronic disease.