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Did you know that acupuncture helps your body communicate and heal by releasing blockages in your “Qi,” or energy system? Acupuncture can help improve peoples’ lives by reducing pain, reducing inflammation, improving sleep, improving stress, and helping to balance the body’s immune response.

From a western perspective, acupuncture treatment is a physical stimulus that produces a healing response in the body. There are many different styles of acupuncture services. Here at Weymouth Chiropractic and Wellness, no matter what your situation is, we always focus on balancing the root cause of blockages while also addressing the specific symptoms that you want to focus on.

Body Acupuncture

Body acupuncture treatment and care can reduce pain by stimulating the release of natural pain-relieving chemicals and can reduce stress by regulating the sympathetic/parasympathetic response. This response involves the nervous system and increased blood flow to influential points on the body that have local and systemic benefits. Locally, this brings healing hormones, nutrients and anti-inflammatory factors to the point that help heal tissue, break up adhesions in fascia, reduce muscle tension and reduce inflammation.

Auricular & Scalp Acupuncture

Auricular (ear) acupuncture treatment, scalp acupuncture and orthopedic techniques have a strong basis in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Acupuncture communities around the world widely-adopted auricular acupuncture beginning in the 1980s to help treat chronic lower back pain, migraines, anxiety, and addiction among other health concerns. There is an ease to the application, with no clothing removal needed to access the dozens of acupuncture points within the ears, or on the scalp. Auricular & scalp acupuncture are mostly used in addition to whole-body acupuncture treatments.

Non-insertive Acupuncture Techniques

Occasionally, non-insertive techniques like magnet therapy and acupressure will be used. These are not only effective strategies to treat root blockages in the body but can also provide relaxing, comfortable treatment styles for needle sensitive patients and children. Specific practices include Tui Na, Cupping, and Gua Sha. These modalities are all very detoxifying, so be sure to drink plenty of water to help facilitate the detox process.

At Home Recommendations

Many times, your acupuncturist will recommend activities you can do at home that will help improve your condition. Self acupressure can be especially powerful because it gives your body the opportunity to integrate acupressure signaling at important and routine times. Examples would include acupressure at points to promote sleep at night and pain management points when the patient is experiencing that pain or tension. Other at home recommendations may include dietary and lifestyle advice, heat therapy, stretching, and Tai Chi/Qi Gong movements specific to your condition.

What Research Shows

MRI research has shown when different acupuncture treatment points are stimulated, there will be a specific and corresponding response in the brain. The effects can help reduce pain and anxiety. The following are excerpts and summaries from a few of those studies. The evidence supports the natural, whole-body, drug-free approach of acupuncture for a variety of conditions.

For chronic pain, in the largest study of its kind to date, 454,920 patients were treated with acupuncture for headache, low back pain, and/or osteoarthritis in an open pragmatic trial. Effectiveness was rated as marked or moderate in 76% of cases by the 8,727 treating physicians

Weidenhammer et al (2007), Complementary Therapies in Medicine

Acupuncture is effective for the treatment of chronic pain and is therefore a reasonable referral option. Significant differences between true and sham acupuncture indicate that acupuncture is more than a placebo.

Vickers et al (2012), Archives of Internal Medicine

The effects from acupuncture for treating anxiety have been shown to be significant as compared to conventional treatments.

Goyata et al (2016), Brazilian Journal of Nursing

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