Knee pain

Knee problems require a targeted approach. We reduce pain by resolving blockages and stimulating blood flow in the knee joint. For example, for injuries, after surgery or pain due to osteoarthritis.

Acupuncture Purmerend - Nurture Your Nature can help you with many different forms of knee pain. In our practice, we often see 4 types of knee pain.

1. Acute knee pain due to trauma or injury
2. Knee pain due to wear and tear (osteoarthritis)
3. Muscle tension that causes knee pain
4. Knee pain due to complex problems: rheumatism or inflammation

With our treatment method, we provide immediate pain relief. Read more about how we can help you with acupuncture for knee pain.

Acute knee pain

Acute knee pain occurs due to trauma or injury with sports. Examples of acute symptoms include swelling, pain, and redness. In addition, it is possible that the tendon or knee ligament is torn. There may also be a bone fracture.

In case of acute complaints, acupuncture helps to reduce swelling and pain. First of all, this provides relief. But secondly, it also ensures that recovery is faster.

Chronic knee pain

Many people suffer from knee pain for a long time. This can make sports, exercise, walking and many daily activities very difficult. There can also be an uncertainty when moving, which causes people to fall faster. Knees are relatively heavily loaded. That's why it's important to relieve them as soon as possible.

Pain can also occur with age. This has to do with the fact that the lower body is less able to recover due to deficiencies in Liver and Kidney energy. This can also be the case with osteoarthritis. The good news is that acupuncture and herbs can easily strengthen this.

Knee pain due to muscle tension

Tension and muscle tension cause muscles to become shorter and stiffer. This causes too much friction and makes moving painful. It is often the muscles around the knee that are too tight. The upper leg muscles, hamstrings, or calf muscles can be overstretched or cramped, making knee movement painful.

What is less known is that knee pain does not always occur in the knee itself. The cause can also be found elsewhere in the body. After all, movement is a function of the whole body: when we walk, everything works together.

For example, a chronically high breathing pattern can influence tension, posture and movement dynamics. This can ultimately cause extra strain on, for example, the knees.

That's why we always make a comprehensive diagnosis when it comes to acupuncture treatment. We don't just look at the complaint, but at the whole thing: from the underlying cause to the ultimate expression. In this way, we can treat in a targeted and sustainable way.

Knee pain due to osteoarthritis

Osteoarthritis (wear and tear) usually develops gradually due to prolonged or repeated overload. As we get older, this is more common.

What is essential here is that joints keep moving: rest, rest. When a joint can function within its natural range of motion again, this supports the recovery process in two ways. First, movement improves joint lubrication, making movement smoother and less painful. Secondly, it stimulates blood flow and the body's self-healing capacity.

Acupuncture can help with this by relieving pain and improving local blood flow. This makes it easier to use the joint properly again and to restore natural mobility.

Knee pain due to inflammation

When pain and cramping persist for a longer period of time, an inflammatory response can occur. This often leads to swelling, warmth and an increase in pain.

In Chinese medicine, these symptoms are seen as signs of heat and accumulation of waste. The combination of pain and stagnation disrupts circulation, making it harder for the body to recover. This can lead to a vicious cycle in which the complaint maintains itself.

To break this process, targeted treatment is needed that relaxes, relieves and restores circulation, for example with acupuncture.

Examples of inflammatory symptoms that we treat include bursitis and tendonitis.

Knee pain due to rheumatism

As described earlier, waste products, heat and blood flow play an important role in knee problems. However, cold can also have an influence, because cold contracts and obstructs circulation.

When waste products are not removed naturally, the body can compensate with an inflammatory response. Substances that are normally produced by the body are then experienced as harmful and the immune system still tries to clean them up. This can cause swelling, pain, and further stagnation.

In Chinese medicine, the interplay between heat (inflammation), cold, waste products and reduced circulation is called BI syndrome. This is characterized by pain symptoms that can vary in intensity and location, which is logical when multiple factors influence each other.

With our knowledge and experience, we first carefully identify the underlying causes. Based on this, we put together a targeted treatment to address complex pain symptoms effectively and sustainably.

Knees over toes system for knee pain

In this video, Ben Patrick shows why his Knees Over Toes method differs from the usual approach. Instead of avoiding movements, he builds up strength and mobility in a controlled manner in final positions, so that the knee becomes resilient and resilient step by step.

Treating knee pain with herbal therapy

Many pain symptoms will recover with acupuncture. Sometimes pain symptoms are persistent, intense, or complex. Herbal therapy then offers many benefits and can also be combined with acupuncture. Because you take herbs daily, the therapy is also stronger and better suited for complaints that are very intense. Another advantage is that complex pain symptoms often involve reduced circulation of blood, energy and waste products. All these factors hamper recovery and herbs can all address and dissolve them from within.

Finally: herbs also help strengthen the body and rebuild strength very well. If the body, or part of it, is too weak, this also leads to pain. You could also see this as a form of unintentional overload. Complaints where the above may play a role include:

• Osteoarthritis (wear and tear)
• Recovering from an accident
• Recovery from surgery (e.g. a new knee)
• Long term/chronic/persistent complaints