Time-honoured Chinese medicine, acupuncture is a popular form of therapy and especially for those patients who are living in pain.
One of the oldest forms of medicine, curing people for thousands of years in the eastern part of the world, now gripping its foothold tight in western. Positive results and ability to cure some chronic diseases which till few years thought to be incurable, making acupuncture very popular in the US and especially in Rochester NY. Acupuncture is a form of treatment that involves inserting tiny needles in a person’s skin at specific points on the body, which are also called trigger point. Research suggests that it can help in relieving pain as well as many other disorders that causes serious problem in people’s life. The effectiveness in other disorders other than pain not known.
Though it is unclear how acupuncture works. Some practitioners are in view that it works by balancing vital energy, while others believe it has a neurological effect.Acupuncture remains controversial among Western medical doctors and scientists. Acupuncture involves inserting needles at certain target points of the body. Trained practitioner will insert needles into a person’s body with the aim of balancing their energy.
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) explains that health is the result of a sound balancing of the extremes of “yin” and “yang” of the life force known as “qi,” pronounced “chi.” Illness or pain or inflammation is said to be the effect of an imbalance of the forces. Qi as it is known, flow through meridians or pathways, in the body. These meridians and energy flows are accessible through 350 acupuncture points in the body. It is said that inserting needles into these points depending on the what is needed to be cured, with appropriate combinations to bring the energy flow back into right balance.
Scientifically there is no proof that acupuncture points exist, but one cannot deny that acupuncture works for some conditions. Some experts have used neuroscience to explain acupuncture as by stimulating nerves, muscles, and connective tissue through inserting needles at specific points. The increase in blood flow through this process triggers the scheme of the body’s natural painkillers.
Arthritis is a persistent disease that causes pain and inflammation in joints and can be widely spread all through the body. Arthritis can not be explained as just one disease, it is a complex disorder and involves more than hundreds of distinct conditions which props up at any stage of life. Pain and inflammation due to arthritis can be avoided with the aid of acupuncture and pain can be managed largely improving the conditions. According to acupuncture, target points for arthritis are located all over the body, not just directly over the affected area. While the treatment, tiny needles are placed along the patient’s legs, arms, shoulders and toes for set period of time, and then removed. The outcome of the treatment can be effective form to manage pain.
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