Acupuncture for Pain Relief

Acupuncture had been associated with the treatment of both acute, and chronic pain for many centuries.

Now several reputable medical studies have confirmed the benefits of acupuncture treatment for many conditions ranging from back, shoulder and neck pain; to osteoarthritis of the knee; as well as tension headaches and migraines. They have shown that the stimulation of acupuncture points has an ability to regulate the hormones levels in the body and can stimulate the nervous system where the sensation of pain originates.

While Oriental medicine regards pain as stagnation of Qi energy and blood in the body, from a Western medical point of view it would appear that the pain relief with acupuncture comes from the deactivation of the source of pain through the modulation of endorphin levels in the body.