As the name of the post title indicates, a lot of research has been done in the past few years regarding the value of acupuncture as a source of treatment for chronic pain sufferers.  In a recent study taking a meta analysis of 29 previous top quality studies involving 17,922 participants, it was shown that acupuncture was considered to be considered a helpful form of treatment for patients that have chronic pain.  Click on the link below to see the story reported.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/09/29/acupuncture-reduces-chronic-pain.aspx?e_cid=20120929_DNL_art_1

One of the issues presented always seems to involve whether or not acupuncture is working or if it is a placebo affect, and this study shows that there is a difference between acupuncture and the so called “sham” acupuncture.   The study found that on using a pain scale between 0-100, patients who started with an average of 60 experienced a 50% reduction in pain when acupuncture was used.  When no acupuncture was used and only standard care was given to the patient, the average reported only a 28% reduction in pain.

For more information on acupuncture and to see if you can benefit from treatments, feel free to give me a call at 360-892-4355 or send me an email at michael@premieracu.com and I’ll be glad to answer anything I can for you.

 

Be well,

Michael