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Case Study: Acupuncture and Macular Degeneration

Mary was born in Boca Raton and attended Boca Raton High School, where she participated in many social activities and helped female professionals gain workplace rights. After graduating, she worked at the Delray Beach Hospital for many years. After reaching fifty years of age, she switched to a primarily vegetarian diet: she mostly consumed fish, tofu, beans, while having chicken once or twice a week. However, she loved eating spicy food and nuts. She had been very healthy until she hit menopause, when she developed inflammation in the eyes, intestinal membranes, and feet.

At the age of fifty, she was diagnosed with macular degeneration in her right eye at the Boca Raton Regional Hospital and began acupuncture treatments at the Fort Lauderdale Acupuncture School. Her left eye retina was also detached three times and required surgery at the West Palm Beach Hospital. The scar tissue that accumulated as a result of these multiple surgeries ultimately caused all vision to be lost in her left eye. While the wet macular degeneration in her right eye was severe, she refused to have medicine injected into her eye. She also developed multiple hernias in her abdominal area which required repair surgery, and foot neuropathy as a result of her surgery and high spicy food intake.

 At the age of ninety, she began acupuncture treatment for her right eye at the Boca Raton Acupuncture Clinic. After just four treatments, she began to feel more energized and became more active socially, playing cards with her friends at her independent living community in Boynton Beach. Her acupuncturist also recommended reducing her spicy food consumption in order to reduce the inflammation in her intestines and her retinas. After four years of biweekly acupuncture treatment and radical diet changes, she was able to drastically improve her digestion and slow down her macular degeneration. Mary will soon celebrate her 95th birthday, and still drives, walks without a cane, and continues to live a healthy and active life.

Treatment of Prostate Enlargement

Prostate enlargement can make your nights difficult because of symptoms such as frequent urination, the urgent need to urinate, difficulty starting urination, sudden stop in urine stream, and weakening urine stream, dribbling at the end of urination, inability to empty the bladder completely and UTI, etc.

Prostate enlargement usually occurs at an older age and can lead to urinary retention, urinary tract infections, bladder stones, bladder damage, kidney damage, etc. Treating prostate enlargement in Boca through acupuncture helps to ameliorate the symptoms.

Researchers at Kaifeng City Central Hospital found that acupuncture is highly effective in treating prostate enlargement. It helps men by eliminating prostate inflammation and relieving urethral pressure. Acupuncture involves the insertion of needles at specific points to treat the root cause of the prostate problems.

Many patients go for surgery, as it is considered to be a permanent treatment, but it may again cause problems like bleeding, infection, incontinence, and impotence, etc. Moreover, the experience is uncomfortable and may be painful. So, the surgery should be the last choice because it can not reduce the inflammation of the prostate. If the prostate is partially cut by laser surgery, it can grow back after a few years.

On the other hand, treating prostate enlargement in Boca through acupuncture is a Chinese technique which keeps you comfortable throughout the treatment and treats the root cause. If you have been seeing doctors for a long time, but are still taking medications, or your doctors have suggested surgery, it is a good idea to try acupuncture for your prostate inflammation.

You can also go for acupuncture after prostate surgery, acupuncture can help the nerves and blood vessels repair much faster so you can avoid future impotence and urine retention. Boca Acupuncturist can also help you change the diet and life style so you can lower your PSA level naturally and prevent prostate cancer.

 
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