Dr. Edvalson

Chiropractor serving your area

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Acupuncture is an ancient medicine, much older and more widely practiced than our modern system of drugs and surgery.  It is another tool in our toolbox to help you achieve optimum health.  Dr. Noah Edvalson completed post-graduate training with the International Academy of Medical Acupuncture, and has achieved Fellow status.  He uses acupuncture to help many of his complicated cases, and is consistently impressed with the results.  If you are in the Boise or Meridian area, please call us today to set up your evaluation and treatment.

Below is a list the World Health Organization has recognized acupuncture as effective for treating:

Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy
Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)
Biliary colic
Depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke)
Dysentery, acute bacillary
Dysmenorrhoea, primary
Epigastralgia, acute (in peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis, and gastrospasm)
Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)
Headache
Hypertension, essential
Hypotension, primary
Induction of labour
Knee pain
Leukopenia
Low back pain
Malposition of fetus, correction of
Morning sickness
Nausea and vomiting
Neck pain
Pain in dentistry (including dental pain and temporomandibular
dysfunction)
Periarthritis of shoulder
Postoperative pain
Renal colic
Rheumatoid arthritis
Sciatica
Sprain
Stroke
Tennis elbow