Stick to Acupuncture

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Stick to Acupuncture

First of all, what is acupuncture?  Acupuncture involves the insertion of extremely thin needles through your skin at strategic points on your body. A key component of Traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture is most commonly used to treat pain.

Traditional Chinese medicine explains acupuncture as a technique for balancing the flow of energy or life force — known as qi or chi (CHEE) — believed to flow through pathways (meridians) in your body. By inserting needles into specific points along these meridians, acupuncture practitioners believe that your energy flow will re-balance.

This most ancient and least understood Chinese therapy (they stick needles all over you!) has snuck into mainstream medical practice, in very specific areas, now that reliable studies have convincingly demonstrated its benefits. 

The World Health Organization recognizes acupuncture as an effective treatment for a host of conditions, including: adverse reactions and nausea related to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy; seasonal allergies, depression, menstrual cramps, headache, high blood pressure, knee and lower-back pain, morning sickness, rheumatoid arthritis, stroke and tennis elbow. And acupuncture is now offered in many North American hospitals (the Cleveland Clinic Center for Integrative Medicine provides more than 10,000 treatments annually) and by the Department of Defense to treat soldiers suffering acute and chronic pain. 

If you are thinking about trying acupuncture for pain relief or to augment treatment for heart problems, allergies or headache, or to increase the effectiveness of fertility treatments, here’s our advice about how to proceed. 

1. Ask if your physician knows an acupuncturist whom he or she would recommend. If not, go towww.nccaom.org for a nationally certified practitioner in your area. (Some MDs are certified, and insurance may cover their treatments.) 

2. Don’t rely on acupuncture alone for treatment of chronic or serious illnesses unless you see a physician first. Acupuncture is for pain without an underlying organ-based pathology.

3. Make sure your acupuncturist uses sterile, prepackaged, one-time-only needles. Ask! 

4. For best results, go through the entire course of treatment. 

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