Medical Acupuncture

Medical acupuncture was basically created for practitioners like doctors, physiotherapists, chiropractors, osteopaths, etc. Acupuncture in the West has been incorporated and modified to create a version of its own which is though not as popular as the traditional Chinese acupuncture. With the alternate medicines gaining popularity, medical practitioners in the West are becoming more aware of the advantages and effectiveness of acupuncture.

The evolution of Medical acupuncture can be seen as an attempt by the Western medicine to look at the practice of acupuncture from a scientific point of view rather than the traditional Chinese perspective.
Patients who have to undergo Medical Acupuncture treatment are determined with the help of various symptoms. For example, people suffering from muscular and skeletal pain respond well to acupuncture.

It is also easy to quantify and measuring the progress of the treatment is relatively simple. For these reasons, physicians normally treat the patient with acupuncture for muscular and skeletal pains before proceeding to give medications.

A physician trained in Chinese medicine usually treats a lot of other ailments effortlessly with acupuncture. For example, acupuncture may be the best treatment option for a patient suffering from constant allergic sinusitis or even asthma. If the condition persists in spite of analgesics and decongestants or even steroids and antibiotics, acupuncture is the best treatment method that can be effective. Another condition which can be effectively treated with acupuncture for post operative pain is paralytic ileus. Acupuncture can also be used for treating reduced post operative bowel motility to enable the patient to recover faster.

Patients suffering from conditions like Asthma and chronic bronchospasm can also be treated with acupuncture. Doing this reduces the need to take more bronchodilators that has unpleasant side effects. This also reduces the patient’s dependency on steroids.

Here are some of the conditions which respond well to acupuncture include postraumatic and post operative ileus, acute and chronic pain control, muscle spasms, anxiety, paresthesiae, neuralgias, drug detoxification, seventh nerve palsy, gastro intestinal disorders like nausea, vomiting, etc, vertigo, chronic headache, frozen shoulder, phantom pain, arthritis, cervical and lumbar spine syndromes, sprains and contusions, pain control for fractures, edema, insomnia, anorexia, atypical chest pain, allergic sinusitis, hiccups, constipation, diarrhoea, severe hyperthermia, cough, acupuncture anaesthesia for high risk patients like those who previously have had adverse reactions to anaesthetics, among many others…

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Medical acupuncture, is being used increasingly for pain control. Richard Niemtzow, MD, PhD, MPH, Editor-in-Chief of Medical Acupuncture, a peer-reviewed journal.

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