According to research presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Pain Society, activities such as yoga and tai chi, as well as therapies like acupuncture, all helped to ease chronic pain in patients.
As health costs rise, more and more people are turning to alternative treatments such as acupuncture to save money. And while the U.S. federal government now recognizes and regulates the field of acupuncture, acceptance by the insurance industry — and their willingness to pay — is still lagging far behind.
Find yourself getting a little too fight or flighty when you get too near a dental chair? Nothing that a couple of needles in the noggin can’t cure.
Supporters of alternative therapies such as acupuncture and massage therapy may be about to get a boost from the United State government.
It must be facelift day, because not two hours after posting about facial yoga, I stumble upon something else I’ve never heard of before: acupuncture facelifts.
It seems like only a couple of weeks ago that we were reporting on acupuncture as being an effective treatment for drug addiction and overactive bladders. Now comes word of yet another acupuncture study, this one hyping the alternative therapy as a treatment for tension headaches.
Acupuncture has been all over the news lately in the form of a series of studies that examine its effectiveness in a number of areas. Some of the news is good, some less so. We’ll start with the good…
