What’s the point of acupuncture?
By Gina Kraman
Addiction, headaches, menstrual
cramps, tennis elbow, infertility, asthma, dental pain, and more ailments are
being treated with acupuncture, reports WebMD:
“Recent advances in technology have helped unlock the biological mysteries of
this 2,000-year-old medical practice. Researchers are closer to
understanding how an acupuncture needle can subtly adjust the body’s tissues,
nerves, and hormones. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the
World Health Organization have both given formal approval of certain uses of
acupuncture.”
Doctors at Ostir Physical Medicine, based in Joliet, offer acupuncture to help
patients suffering from lower back pain and carpal tunnel syndrome.
They explain, “Traditional Chinese acupuncture is based on the idea that energy
flows through the body in 12 pathways, reaching every tissue in the body.
Very thin, solid, sterile needles are inserted in the skin, and used to cause
an effect on certain points along the pathways that correlate to certain
ailments, or parts of the body. The acupuncture needles can stimulate,
re-route, or release any built-up energy.
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