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Acupuncture is effective for the treatment of Headaches\/Migraines, Chronic Pain, Arthritis and Fibromylagia.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Acupuncture is probably most well-known for its ability to treat pain and the many types of pain-related disorders that plague us as humans. Pain signals one of two things: 1) there has been some type of trauma or damage to the structural tissues of the body or 2) there is an internal problem affecting one of our body systems that needs to be addressed. Pain instructs us to take some type of action. Fortunately, many of our pains, physical injuries, accidents, and pain related to illnesses are short lived, temporary and resolve themselves. But, other times, some type of therapy or intervention is required to treat the damage or the problem in order to make it go away. Acupuncture is a therapy that most likely developed out of this aspect of the human condition that requires us to experience pain or suffering at some point in our lives. Pain is a very personal and unique experience for each of us; it is something that we all understand on some level. While we can empathize with another person\u2019s pain and try to objectify it on a scale of how severe it is, it is still very different in how it presents itself and how it affects us as individuals.<\/p>\n

Acupuncture looks at pain in the context of the body as a whole, complete, and functioning unit. So, while there are many Western Medicine theories, studies, and research findings about how Acupuncture Treats Pain, these commonly overlook the underlying mechanism by which this is accomplished. The discussion of how acupuncture treats pain is completely intertwined with the topic of How Acupuncture<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Works in the body at all. For now, let it suffice to say that acupuncture acts as a \u2018counter-irritant\u2019 to the body.<\/p>\n

[expand title=”WHO & NIH List of Pain related conditions that may be effectively treated by Acupuncture<\/strong>“]<\/p>\n

The use of acupuncture has been shown to effectively treat many types of pain-related conditions. In 2003 the World Health Organization (WHO) and the National Institutes of (NIH) released a report called \u201cAcupuncture: Review and Analysis of Reports on Controlled Clinical Trials.\u201d<\/p>\n

Below you will see a list of the conditions mentioned in that report:<\/h3>\n