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Acupuncture & Back Pain
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Back pain is one of the most prevalent reasons people seek health care. Millions of working days and countless hours of activity and fun are lost each year due to back pain. Acupuncture continues to gain popularity in this country because it is an effective treatment of acute and chronic backache. Acute pain can often be cleared up in a few sessions. It has been estimated that up to 80% of the world's population will suffer from back pain at some point in their lives, with the lower back as the most common location of pain |
| As people age, the likelihood that they will suffer from
back pain increases dramatically. While pain medications and
anti-inflammatory drugs are often used by patients as a form of pain relief,
they do little to remedy the source of the pain, and often carry a wealth of
unwanted side-effects.
As a result, many people have begun to pursue safer, non-pharmacological alternatives for pain relief. One of the most commonly used alternative therapies for the treatment of back pain is acupuncture. An offshoot of this is percutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (PENS), which utilizes acupuncture needles to deliver electric current and activate specific nerves in the body. |