Acupuncture & Traditional Chinese Medicine

for

Neck Pain

The latest research and studies show that acupuncture and Chinese medicine are very effective for alleviating neck pain.

So schedule your appointment now!

ACUPUNCTURE EFFECTIVE FOR NECK PAIN

A review of ten different trials has concluded that there is evidence that acupuncture can relieve chronic neck pain. Different trials found that            1. Acupuncture offered better pain relief than placebo treatments or placebo acupuncture (needles inserted in unsuitable locations), 2. Acupuncture provided better pain relief than just waiting, and 3. Acupuncture provided better pain relief than massage.

(Trinh KV et al. Acupuncture for neck disorders. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2006, Issue 3. Art. No. CD004870).

ACUPUNCTURE FOR NECK PAIN

This very large German study compared the effects of fifteen acupuncture treatments over three months with no acupuncture in the treatment of chronic neck pain (longer than six months).  1753 patients were randomly allocated to receive acupuncture and 1698 to the non-acupuncture control group, and a further 10,395 patients rejected randomisation and elected to receive acupuncture. At the end of the three-month treatment period, chronic pain and disability scores and quality of life scores improved significantly in both acupuncture groups compared to controls, with no significant differences between the randomised and non-randomised acupuncture groups.

(11th Annual Symposium on Complementary Health Care 2004).