Western medical experts have been inherently skeptical of acupuncture's therapeutic value for the treatment of pain and other medical conditions. One reason is that it seems very unlikely that the ...

Acupuncture is effective for the treatment of pain that is related tumors and to cancer surgery but not pain due to chemotherapy, radiation therapy (RT), or hormone therapy, according to the largest ...

Acupuncture first came to the attention of mainstream America in 1971, after New York Times reporter James Reston wrote enthusiastically about how it helped with his pain following an emergency ...

The Chinese have, for long, created a perestroika of sorts. They use acupuncture for stroke victims, among other conditions. The big question. What makes such a 'needle-centric' therapy so unique, ...

Replacing copper coil handles on all disposable acupuncture needles with plastic stick handles would not only substantially curb the risk of needle buckling, but would also save tonnes of copper wire ...

For centuries, the therapeutic use of needles has been associated exclusively with the field of acupuncture. But that seems to be eroding. As other disciplines have adopted a similar technique and ...

I’ll try anything once. But poking needles into my body never seemed like something I’d like at ALL … as in … not EVEN once. However, a single visit to the ...

the option for more powerful pain medicine, to direct spinal steroid injections, all the way up to surgery that fuses multiple vertebrae together. If one chooses an alternative treatment, acupuncture ...