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Monday, July 31, 2006

Acupuncture Works For Neck Pain

Neck Pain Eased by Acupuncture

A new review of all the published research shows that treatment with acupuncture will help people suffering neck pain.

Doctors looked at ten different studies with 661 patients all together.

They found that patients who were treated with acupuncture had better pain relief immediately after treatment than those who received dummy treatments, such as laser methods with the machines switched off, or acupuncture with the needles inserted in the wrong places.
The latter two options were used to show that the real acupuncture treatments were having a genuine effect and that pain relief was not simply due to the placebo effect.


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