AIT (Acupuncture Injection Therapy)

AIT- Acupuncture injection therapy is the injection at an acupuncture point of a small amount of a drug, vitamin, saline, or plant extract and is a recent innovation of traditional acupuncture and aims to enhance and prolong the effect of stimulation of acupuncture points. AIT utilizes traditional oriental medicine's meridian system by stimulating acupuncture points with the injection of small amounts of medicinal/botanical substances therefore obtaining a dual effect of acu-point stimulation and the pharmacological effect of the substance injected.

AIT Advantages-
*combines principles of acupuncture as an energetic medicine with modern injection therapies.
*uses whole body approach to care
*lasting effects
*medication directed to targeted area
*rapid initial effect
*no "first pass" effect

Trigger point injection-
*pain related to a discrete, irritable point in skeletal muscle or fascia, not caused by acute local trauma, inflammation, degeneration, neoplasm, or infection.
*the painful point can be felt as a tumor or band in the muscle, and a twitch response can be elicited on stimulation of a trigger point.
*palpation of the trigger point reproduces the patient's complaint of pain, and the pain radiates in a distribution typical of the specific muscle harboring the trigger point.
*the pain cannot be explained by finding on neurological examination.
*myofascial trigger points are tiny contraction knots that develop in an injured or overworked muscle.
*sarcomeres are microscopic units of muscle that contract, by interlocking to make the smallest of movements. A trigger point exists when over stimulated sarcomeres are chemically prevented from releasing their interlocked state.
*injection therapy would be directly into and around the trigger point.

Acu-prolotherapy-
*prolo short for proliferation- treatment causes the growth of new tissue is areas where it has become weak.
*designed to promote natural healing of a ligament or tendon.
*the goal is to strengthen weakened connective tissue and improve musculoskeletal pain.
*prolotherapy uses injected dextrose solution to cause localized inflammation in the weak areas which stimulates blood supply, the flow of nutrients and the tissue to repair itself.

Neual therapy-
*originally developed in germany by Huneke brothers.
*injection of procaine into various specific areas.
*based on the theory that truama can produce long standing disturbances in the electrochemical function of tissues.
*trauma can affect scars, nerves, or ganglions(nerve clusters). 
*resulting in interference fields.
*neural therapy injection can instantly and lastingly resolve chronic pain.

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