A Quick Fact About Acupuncture
An Interesting Spiritual Healing Fact
Acupuncture for Headaches
headaches. They impact on every part of their lives. Headaches can disrupt their employment, schooling and social activities. Those people who suffer from chronic headaches, migraines or cluster headaches continue to search for an answer that is more than taking another medication or lying in a dark room waiting for it to go away. Some of the medication that works have side effects and the pain that one endures waiting in the darkened room for sleep to come is more than some can tolerate. That...
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What is the Acupuncture Treatment Like
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There are several theories on why acupuncture works. One such theory says that when we get hurt we tend to rub the spot where the pain is and isn’t that a little like acupuncture? Seventy percent of the acupuncture points that are used to place the needles are coincidently the same points as those that are known in medical terms as trigger points for pain. There are some researchers who say that the reason acupuncture works is because it stimulates these points, generating almost an electrical current around them and so sending some kind of signal into the skin.
This has not been completely proven and other researchers say that it is being referred to wrongly. They claim instead that the insertion of the needles in fact stimulates the body’s natural pain relievers; the endorphins. Others claim that the reason it works is because the acupuncturists have found a way to hold back the pain by stimulating the larger nerves. This then blocks the pain messages from the smaller nerves and so ends the pain. Acupuncture is one method of pain relief that has way too many western theories. If you ask those that use acupuncture they will tell you that it works for them, that they are pleased with the results and that the reasons why it works do not interest them at all.
The first time you go for arthritis acupuncture treatment your will likely be there for an hour while the acupuncturist takes their time to be certain they get to know your pain and how to treat it. This will include taking down the history of your pain, the causes as well as information on the treatments you have tried before.
They will use anywhere from two needles to twenty and leave them in you for a few minutes depending on which acupuncture points they use. You will feel the tiniest intrusion as the needles enter the skin, but after that you should feel nothing. That includes when the acupuncturist gently twirls some needles for better treatment results. After your initial treatment, you will schedule the next few sessions that are expected to be needed; your next treatments will be shorter.
Depending on the problem you can expect to require six to ten treatments. The pain relief should last anywhere from three to nine months. As the results begin to diminish the patient need only return for a couple of top up treatments to keep the positive effects going. The payments are not cheap but are worth the cost, an average of one hundred dollars per treatment, for the relief they will bring.
Most medical insurance companies are now covering these costs, though not all. The ones that do frequently require a note from the patient’s health care provider recommending the treatment. This is certainly worth having as it will save the patient money while getting them the treatment they require. Acupuncture is not a cure all but it is certainly recognized as a highly successful and easily available source of pain relief. |
Discoveries in Acupuncture
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05/15/2012
More Americans using acupuncture for common ailments
Americans are using acupuncture more to provide relief from pain and common ailments, according to a new survey
More Americans using acupuncture for common ailments
05/15/2012
More Americans using acupuncture for common ailments
Americans are using acupuncture more to provide relief from pain and common ailments, according to a new survey
More Americans using acupuncture for common ailments
05/06/2012
Want to quit smoking ? Try acupuncture or hypnosis
Acupuncture and hypnosis have been promoted as drug-free ways to help smokers kick the habit, and there is some evidence that they work, according to a research review that looked at 14 international studies. Researchers, whose findings appeared in the American Journal of Medicine, said that there are still plenty of questions, including exactly how effective alternative therapies might be and ...
Want to quit smoking ? Try acupuncture or hypnosis
04/25/2012
Mixed evidence on acupuncture for irritable bowels
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The research on whether acupuncture helps ease irritable bowel syndrome has so far been a mixed bag, according to a new review of past clinical trials. The review, published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology, found that in some trials, acupuncture seemed to work better than certain medications for irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS. Yet in others, acupuncture ...
Mixed evidence on acupuncture for irritable bowels
05/15/2012
Acupuncture may help some people with COPD: study
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Three months of acupuncture improved breathing problems in people with chronic lung disease, in a new study from Japan. According to one researcher, the benefits seen with the alternative treatment were on par with, or better than, what's been shown for conventional drugs and exercises used to treat the disease. But the study was small, he added, and more research ...
Acupuncture may help some people with COPD: study
05/16/2012
Study: Acupuncture may help some people with COPD
Three months of acupuncture improved breathing problems in people with chronic lung disease, in a new study
Study: Acupuncture may help some people with COPD
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