Pain Management

One of Boise, Idaho’s most experienced Acupuncturists excels in pain management of acute, chronic and post–operative pain.

The Pain Stops Here!
At Alderman Medical Acupuncture, “it’s all about YOU”. We understand that treating pain means healing both your mind and body. While most pain management clinics rely solely on medicating the symptoms of pain, our outpatient pain management program specifically targets the source of your discomfort and embodies a holistic perspective toward alleviating chronic pain and restoring your health and vitality.

Dr. John Alderman is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine and Licensed Acupuncturist. His almost three decades of specializing in pain management make him the intelligent choice of physician’s and patient’s alike in our Treasure Valley and Boise.

If you are a pain suffer you may well be experiencing the debilitating effects that limits your productivity or ability to work, hinders decision making, interrupts sleep, hinders relational activities, affects your personality, loss of sex drive and challenges your family relationships.

At Alderman Medical “it’s all about You. Regardless, of the causations of your pain, we have the solutions to regaining your life free of pain.

The majority of our patients seek Dr. Alderman after experiencing pain for more than three months, and is therefore classified as chronic pain suffers. Their lingering, ongoing conditions affect every aspect of their lives: mood, concentration, motor performance, sleep, social relations, etc. Researchers even have new evidence indicating that pain affects the immune system such that cancer cells appear to grow faster when there is pain. Dr. John tells his patients that being stoic and putting up with severe pain is not a healthy thing to do.

At Alderman Medical Acupuncture, we commonly treat these types of pain:

• Arthritis, joint pain and stiffness from and other conditions
• Complex regional pain syndromes (CRPS)
• Cancer pain
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
• Diabetic neuropathy
• Discogenic disease
• Facet syndromes
• Fibromyalgia
• Herniated disc
• Intercostal neuralgia
• Migraines and other headaches
• Neck and Low back pain
• Nerve pain resulting from neck and back injuries
• Occipital neuralgia
• Osteoarthritis
• Pain syndromes associated with work related injuries, auto accidents
• Pelvic, hip leg, ankle and foot pain
• Phantom pain
• Plantar Fascitis
• Post-surgical pain
• Reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD)
• Sciatic nerve pain
• Shingles and post herpetic neuralgia
• Shoulder, wrist and hand pain
• Sinus pain
• Tennis elbow
• TMJ pain
• Trigeminal neuralgia
• Whiplash injuries
• Vertebral compression syndromes

Alderman Medical's Injury & Post Operative Pain Program

If you have suffered an injury, want to avoid surgery, or would like to speed your recovery from a necessary surgery, can help. We offer an effective natural comprehensive recovery program that gets results quicker than you ever thought possible. Our individualized treatment protocols are a combination of Acupuncture, Herbal Medicine, Exercises, Massage and Nutrition that maximizes your healing potentials for a wide variety of conditions and syndromes including, but not limited to:

• Post Surgical Pain Syndromes
• Auto Accident Injuries
• Work Related Injuries
• Sports Injuries
• Orthopedic Surgeries
• Gynecological Surgeries
• Oral Surgeries
• Cosmetic Surgeries
• Dental Procedures

At we understand the effects of accidents and post surgical traumas on your quality of life, loss of work and stressors in the family environment.

Injuries occurring from sports, work or auto accidents and surgical interventions are due to trauma or overuse syndromes involving the musculoskeletal system and its soft tissues. Trauma to these soft tissues, including ligaments, tendons and muscles are generally the result from falls, blows, sprains/strains, collisions, compressions crushing and disruptions of the healing processes due to inflammation.

Dr. Alderman brings to Boise and the Treasure Valley a vast wealth of education both in eastern and western medical sciences, and decades of experience in treating sports, work and auto accident injuries. He has served as an expert witness for his patients and attorneys in both the workers compensation, personal and vehicular accident injury arenas. He was one of California’s first Doctors of Oriental Medicine and Licensed Acupuncturist to be certified as a Disability Evaluator and served as a Qualified Medical Evaluator for the State of California. His progressive leadership led him to initially write the curriculum for the diplomat medical courses which lead to the National Board of Acupuncture Orthopedics Diplomat continuing education program. Dr. Alderman is one of a select few of Acupuncturist to have Diplomat status with the National Board of Acupuncture Orthopedics (D.N.B.A.O.) and is currently the only Acupuncturist in Idaho to have this advance degree and the medical training and knowledge that assures appropriate patient care. It is this extensive education and clinical experience that makes him one of the most referred to acupuncturists by physicians and attorneys in the Treasure Valley.

At our evaluation is a comprehensive history and examination involving orthopedic and neurological examination tests, and Traditional Oriental Medicine protocols, which are fundamental to diagnosis, treatment and possible medical legal issues. Based on these findings, we will make treatment recommendation which can include referral to physicians specializing in neurology, physical medicine, orthopedics, as well as, chiropractors and physical therapists. Dr. Alderman;s integrated and complimentary medical philosophy assures excellence in your care that gets results.

Chronic Pain
Chronic pain sufferers are those who continue to experience pain despite the fact that their injury has healed. Pain signals remain active in the nervous system for weeks, months, or years. Physical effects include tense muscles, limited mobility, a lack of energy, and changes in appetite. Emotional effects include depression, anger, anxiety, and fear of re-injury. Such a fear may hinder a person's ability to return to normal work or leisure activities.

Pain Can Be More than Just a Symptom
Pain is your body’s red alert, and you should pay attention to what it has to say. Unfortunately, many people don’t listen to their bodies’ danger signs. Ideally, pain is meant to be felt briefly. That stinging, aching, or throbbing sends helpful messages, like "Drop that red-hot pot handle" or "Remove your hand from the hornets' nest." Pain is your body telling you to stop and let your body heal, and after a while, it normally goes away.

But when pain continues, it can affect every aspect of your life. All it takes is an injury that doesn't heal correctly or joint deterioration or nerve damage, and the pain-signaling system breaks down. At that point, your pain isn't giving you a helpful message anymore -- it just hurts and disrupts or incapacitates your life. Chronic pain disrupts work, productivity, activities of daily living, relationships with family and friends, sex lives, and marriages. If you’re a chronic sufferer, you are not alone: A staggering one in 10 Americans reports experiencing regular pain for more than a year. Pain is the Number 1 cause of disability in the United States.

Pain Management without Harmful Side Effects
The majority of our patients are referred by physicians and patients alike. There are generally two types of referring physicians: The first group wants to limit their patients to unnecessary drugs, surgery, and all their accompanying complications and rehabilitation. The second group of physicians refers their more desperate patients, those who are now addicted to pain medications and suffering from Post Surgical Pain Syndromes.

At Alderman Medical Acupuncture of Idaho we see patients suffering from both acute and chronic pain. Acute pain serves as a warning of a disease or a threat to the body and tends to begin suddenly and is usually sharp in quality. Acute pain may be caused by many events or circumstances, including bone fractures, internal disease, muscular overuse syndromes, and childbirth. This acute pain may be mild and last just a moment, or it may be severe and last for weeks or months. In most cases, acute pain does not last longer than six months and disappears when the underlying cause has been treated or has healed. Unrelieved acute pain, however, may lead to chronic pain.

Contact us today to find out how we can help you get on the road to a pain-free life, integrating the centuries-old, proven Traditional Oriental Medicine and the new innovative scientific Acupuncture techniques.

Remember…. THE PAIN STOPS HERE!

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