Pain Management

As or More Effective than Medications for Back Pain & Migraine

Lower Back Pain

1164 Patients in 3 groups
Results:

At 6 months (6 months after therapies), significant improvement maintained:

• 47.6% Group 1: Traditional acupuncture
• 44.2% Group 2: “Sham” (placebo) acupuncture
• 27.4% Group 3: Conventional therapy (a combination of drugs, physical therapy, and exercise)

Migraine

22 trials with 4419 participants
Available studies suggest that acupuncture is:

• At least as effective as, or possibly more effective than, prophylactic drug treatment
• Has fewer adverse effects.

Any Kinds of Pain

Additionally, acupuncture treats the underlying cause of the pain, so it may provide permanent relief and cure for the following conditions:

• Posttraumatic injury (i.e. from auto accidents, falls...)
• Post surgery, dental pain
• Sports injury: joint sprains and other soft tissue injury
• Arthritis: osteo, rheumatoid, rheumatic or gouty
• Migraine, headache and neck pain, TMJ
• Lower back pain, herniation of discs
• Pain in the upper limbs: rotator cuff injury, frozen shoulder, tendonitis, bursitis, fascitis, tennis or golf elbow, carpal tunnel syndrome
• Pain in the lower limbs: hip pain, knee pain, ankle pain, sciatica, tendonitis, bursitis, plantar fascitis, Morton’s neuroma
• Fibromyalgia, myofascial pain, Tietze syndrome (costochondritis)
• Neuropathic pain: trigeminal neuralgia, post herpetic pain, pinched nerve (radiculopathy)
• Pain due to endoscopic examination, reflex sympathetic dystrophy