Treatment Options For Muscle Spasms in Portland

Involuntary contractions and tightening of your muscles. They’re common, involuntary, and unpredictable, but usually painful.

These feel a painful stitch in the side and would be agonizing to deal with. They are usually temporary but still need treatment to reduce the pain and to ensure the occurrence reduces to little and then nil.

For an immediate solution, Muscle relaxants, stretching, and massage is most likely to help.

The common causes of Muscle spasms in Portland include:

1. Muscle fatigue.
2. Not enough stretching.
3. Exercising in the heat.
4. Depletion of electrolytes
5. Restriction in the blood supply.
6. Standing or working on concrete floors.
7. Sitting improperly.
8. Involuntary nerve discharges.
9. Too much high-intensity exercise.
10. Sitting for long periods of time.
11. Overusing the muscles.

Drinking plenty of water and stretching the muscles before any exercise or repetitive movements. Stretching the limbs before bed can help prevent nocturnal cramping.

Pain medications and stretching is the common solution people turn to when experiencing a muscle spasm. While this may work for most, It isn’t great for all and doesn’t treat the root cause, which makes you vulnerable to more spasms in the future.

Acupuncture is a treatment wherein there are sterilized, disposable needles inserted into the skin at certain points as a method to have the body’s flow return to normal. This is because the pressure and needling of these set points ensure the nervous system is reset by the release of certain chemicals by the body. The neurochemical balance of the body has come to a balance, the pain is reduced and the muscles begin to relax and the spasms stop and you feel a lot more relaxed and rejuvenated (the reason why people use it in spas).

Acupuncture ensures the body's immunity is improved, therefore making it function with optimization as a result of the hormonal, biochemical balance in the body.

The method aids bodily healing to occur faster and more efficiently. This makes it non-addicting and more of a very relaxing and efficient method for overall healing and better bodily functioning naturally.

Acupuncture treatments are effective almost immediately after the beginning of the session and the healing continues hours after the treatment too.

While there are needles being inserted into the body, this doesn’t make you get infections, feel pain, and get tensed.

The needles are all sterilized and disposable, which makes them hygienic.

The needles used are also super fine, thus it is very unnoticeable and painless.

The treatment ensures proper prepping of your skin and inserting needles into your skin at specific points and letting it stay for a while, depending on the severity and other criteria. Most often, it is 30 minutes long. The needles are then taken out, with care, and disposed of. Nobody else will use those needles.

Acupuncture treatments are more inexpensive and long-term in comparison to taking pain medications or relaxants often.

So, those facing muscle spasms, make an acupuncture appointment to get rid of those annoying spasms.

When booking your acupuncture appointment be sure to follow the before and after appointment care for better healing.

Happy healing!