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As we become
more international in our whole approach and
outlook, Healthcare Professionals in the
West have as a result become much more aware
of the apparent success of these methods and
have as a result become much more interested
in incorporating these techniques into the
skill set of treatment options that are now
on offer and available to patients.
Acupuncture involves stimulating specific
points in the body for therapeutic purposes.
Puncturing the skin with a very thin needle
is the usual method, but practitioners also
use heat, pressure friction, suction or the
impulses of electromagnetic energy to
stimulate the points.
The explanation behind all of this is that
channels of energy run in regular patterns
through the body and over its surface. These
energy channels, called meridians, are like
rivers flowing through the body irrigating
and nourishing the tissues. Acupuncturists
maintain that these rivers can become
blocked at certain points and that the
Acupuncture needles clear these
obstructions. The more modern scientific
explanation is that needling the acupuncture
points stimulates the nervous system to
release chemicals in the muscles, spinal
chord, and brain.
Contrary to popular belief the needles and
the process doesn’t hurt. Acupuncture
needles are very thin, solid and are made
from stainless steel. The point is smooth
(not hollow, as with a hypodermic needle)
and as a result insertion in the skin is not
as painful as having injections for blood
samples etc. Neither is there as much
bruising as you would get from the use of
conventional needles which of course makes
this an excellent form of treatment fore the
elderly or those who for a variety of reason
would find themselves liable to bruising
very easily.
There has been quite extensive research
carried out into the success of Acupuncture
as a treatment and the results seem to bear
out the use of this form of treatment. It
does appear to work.
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