Treating Pain with Acupuncture

Acupuncture is known for its ability to successfully treat pain. Acupuncture can be an extremely powerful and effective approach to treat pain because it decreases pain levels as it stimulates the body’s healing response. Acupuncture resolves pain by affecting several pain pathways and healing responses at the same time:

• raise endorphin levels and diminish the nervous systems pain response
• decrease inflammation and swelling
• relax muscles and stop spasms
• increase circulation to the local area

Chronic pain is quite stressful and can wear someone down causing irritability, tension and insomnia. By relaxing the whole person, acupuncture also helps eliminate these other negative aspects of pain and it does so in a natural way, with no negative side effects.