ACUPUNCTURE AND PAIN
How can Acupuncture help with Pain?Acupuncture is an effective way of treating both chronic and acute pain. The use of acupuncture techniques including needling, moxibustion and cupping can be used to reduce inflammation, ease muscle spasm and reduce pain.
Types of pain often treated:
Back Pain
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) who are part of the NHS have recently backed the use of acupuncture for lower back pain as it is a common problem affecting 1 in 3 adults in the UK a year.
The NICE guideline showed evidence that acupuncture needling is beneficial in reducing pain and improving function.
Low back pain: early management of persistent non-specific low back pain, Full guideline, May 2009
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) who are part of the NHS have recently backed the use of acupuncture for lower back pain as it is a common problem affecting 1 in 3 adults in the UK a year.
The NICE guideline showed evidence that acupuncture needling is beneficial in reducing pain and improving function.
Low back pain: early management of persistent non-specific low back pain, Full guideline, May 2009
Professor Peter Littlejohns of NICE said "Patients whose pain is not improving should have access to a choice of different therapies including acupuncture"
