
An ancient Chinese method of pain relief and disease treatment; acupuncture practitioners have used acupuncture effectively over several centuries.? Acupuncture practitioners use a treatment where fine, hair-like needle insertion is done over several, specific areas of the body.?
According to Chinese philosophy, acupunture practitioners can influence the channels of energy that run within the body.? Through the insertion of needles at points along these meridians, acupuncturists believe that acupuncture can? relieve disease and pain through bringing balance back between the two principal forces of nature -- the yin and the yang.? Modern acupuncture practitioners theorize that acupuncture reduces pain through biological mechanisms.? {That, as in the opioid peptides, and hypothalamus and pituitary gland stimulation, neurotransmittal? and hormonal changes, or immune system modifications.}? Whatever the theory, acupuncture is a safe and common practice.??
Most often, acupuncture practitioners use their healing arts for chronic illness and severe injury.? Patients are always conscious and feel little or no pain for the duration of the acupuncture practitioner's procedure.? Scientifically researched, acupuncture practitioners can trigger signals in the nervous system, and redefine pain signals to the brain through means of acupuncture.? Acupunture practitioners' therapy increases brain productivity of endorphins, or the body's natural painkiller.? Acupuncture practitioners are widely in Asia and Europe, but acupunture therapy is rapidly gaining popularity here in the United States as well.