23^rd International Conference & Expo Physiotherapy & Sports Medicine

Acupuncture & Techniques

Acupuncture helps to ease types of pain that are often chronic such as neck pain, low-back pain and osteoarthritis/knee pain. It also may help reduce the frequency of tension headaches and prevent a migraine headache which was suggested from number of studies. Thus, acupuncture appears to be a suitable option for people with chronic pain to consider. In Acupuncture very thin needles, slightly thicker than a human hair, are inserted into acupuncture points. The objective of acupuncture as explained earlier is to regulate and normalize the flow of the Chi, so that the Yin and the Yang return to a state of dynamic equilibrium.