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Recent evidence suggests that acupuncture can help relieve the pain caused by sciatica, a common condition in which the sciatic nerve becomes compressed. Acupuncture can help relieve sciatica pain ...
“Complementary therapies are a way to feel engaged; they’re something people can pursue on their own to regain a sense of control.” By some estimates, 87% of individuals with cancer have ...
Acupuncture is sometimes used for TMD. [46] There is limited evidence that acupuncture is an effective symptomatic treatment for TMD. [83] [84] [85] A short-term reduction in muscular pain of muscular origin can usually be observed after acupuncture in TMD, [85] and this is more than is seen with placebo. [86]
Harriet Hall writes that there is a contrast between the circumstances of alternative medicine practitioners and disinterested scientists: in the case of acupuncture, for example, an acupuncturist would have "a great deal to lose" if acupuncture were rejected by research; but the disinterested skeptic would not lose anything if its effects were ...
In a June 2000 review, Chang-Zern Hong correlates the MTrP "tender points" to acupunctural "ah shi" ("Oh Yes!") points, and the "local twitch response" to acupuncture's "de qi" ("needle sensation"), [27] based on a 1977 paper by Melzack et al. [28] Peter Dorsher comments on a strong correlation between the locations of trigger points and ...
If his muscles are sore, tight, or tense, then he looks for outside treatment, such as acupuncture or cupping. “If my body is telling me something, I’m going to try something,” Phelps says. 2.
Physical therapy involves training the use of the affected limb or training the use of the body. This is for the purpose of retraining muscles after muscle atrophy, and retraining how to use the affected muscles with less amplified pain. Massage therapy is used to desensitize the affected area or body so it can build a tolerance to pain.
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