Pain and Acupuncture News

Chronic pain effects millions of Americans every year.  Here you can read about how acupuncture is used
in the treatment of various types of chronic pain. An acupuncturist and student of martial arts, Steve Pang
publishes the blog Gotham Acupuncture.

According to a new German study, women experiencing menstrual pain and cramps reported significant improvement
in their after only three months of treatment.  Click the link to read more.

The use of acupuncture before and during surgery reduces patients post-operative pain as well as the need for
pain-killing medication, researchers said on Tuesday.

There are several good trials of acupuncture for the treatment of postherpetic neuralgia after shingles. These
universally show that acupuncture is not effective for treating postherpetic neuralgia pain.

Acupuncture represents a highly promising and effective treatment option for chronic back pain according to study
co-author Dr. Heinz Endres of Ruhr University Bochum in Bochum, Germany.

According to a research study presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Clinical Oncology,
acupuncture could improve chronic pain and shoulder mobility in cancer patients. In addition, acupuncture could
significantly reduce extreme dryness in mouth in these patients.

In the seventies, acupuncture was used in China and Japan as anesthesia in abdominal operations such as appendicitis.
Although acupuncture has no side effects and is simple to use, it was found that anesthesia produced by acupuncture
had individual variations and took too much time.  Acupuncture analgesia is being considered now as a way
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