Pain during accupunture

Comment by Archived User

Acupuncture for prolapsed disc treatment only can stop pain, but the needles can not make the disc go back, the best points are Hua Tuo Jia Ji points on lower back. Why don&#39t you try some Tuina Chinese Massage therapist to do the treatment.

Comment by Archived User

Acupuncture treatment mostly involves needles . There are needles like sujok needles, which we use for treatment,wont cause pain .Moreover pain is very negligible( in some cases) ,less than the pain of ant bite whereas the result will be remarkable . Acupuncture will treat not only ur pain, also depression and other energy loss. So try this and have a good health.

Comment by Archived User

er ok neither of those answers really related to my question but thanks any way

Comment by Archived User

Ur quest is that due to ur thiness u get pain during insertion of needle,right. If so yes is the answer and the way or style in which needles r inserted counts a lot .

Comment by Chad J. Dupuis, L.Ac.

First, generally speaking you want acupuncture -only- from fully trained acupuncturists - not from MD&#39s, PT&#39s, Chiro&#39s or anyone else with minimal training in acupuncture. While they -can- be good as well so it is unfair to generalize odds are that they are lacking the significant training required to properly administer acupuncture in anything but the most simple of cases. I can assume your practitioner does not know acupuncture by how they only needled locally for your back problem - that alone is enough reason to find someone else.

That said, to answer your question more precisely - what you felt was simply poor technique which, again, non fully trained acupuncturists are somewhat more likely to have. Your thinness has nothing to do with what you will or will not feel from the needles. Properly adminstered you should feel very little and in the vast majority of cases people simply fall asleep during treatment.

For back problems you want a fully trained acupuncturist who is also trained and does tuina (Chinese Medical Massage) and cupping. With this you have a great chance to improve considerably in a fairly short order of time.

Comment by Archived User

I can only echo what Chad says. Do NOT have acupuncture from someone who is not LicAc/LAc. Just because they are MD/physio/osteo/nurse...whatever...already, it does not mean they know about Chinese Medicine and acupuncture. I speak as a nurse, and what I learned on my 3 year basic course bore very little relation to anything I had done in 30 years of &#39conventional&#39 medicine.

I admire Chad&#39s generous and gracious attitude that sometimes this first aid type treatment can be OK. Fair enough, he has a point (excuse the pun). However, you clearly need more than first aid. You have a long term problem and you have a fear of needles. The latter is not an issue when having acupuncture - strange as it may sound. I treat lots of people who are seriously needle phobic and they have no problem. I also treat children and babies. If it hurt, there&#39s no way they would co-operate.

Acupuncture can give rise to unusual sensations when the needle makes contact with your energy but they are not generally painful ones. If you do feel pain it is the practitioners responsibility to do something about it, and that does not involve blaming the patient!

I urge you to seek the attention of a proper acupuncturist. The World Health Organisation states that anyone with less than 2000 hours training is not doing acupuncture. A LicAc/LAc has at least 3000 hours. Most physios/Mds and so on have as little as 48 hours training. If you post back on here and say where you live, I&#39m sure someone will find a practitioner for you!!!

Good Luck!

Comment by Archived User

Take a look at Tong Ren distant energy healing, which is available for free by phone and over the internet. TR avoids the need for needles or even contact. Chad has links to it, or go to Tomtam.com. I can also do it for you in Second Life.

A quick alternative is to take a plastic doll and tap on the back of the doll, with your index finger, on the corresponding pain location. You can also just try holding the doll in your hand with your index finger on the corresponding ouch point (pain point), while doing slow deep breathing.

Good Luck,

DaveG