(June 3, 2013 at 5:15 am)Creed of Heresy Wrote: I've heard that acupuncture can bring pain relief. Something to do with nerve clusters being severed by the puncturing and then when they heal it's like you pushed a reset button. It's kind of like how it works with treating phantom pains in limbs that have been severed. It's not unbelievable that some Chinese guy a few thousand years ago accidentally stumbled across a means of relieving pain by ironically doing something that would seem to be counter-productive, didn't know how it worked, and just chalked it up to spiritualistic mumbo-jumbo. We humans are funny like that.
I had acupuncture last winter when I busted my ass falling while ice skating. I went from being unable to sit squarely on my ass to being somewhat able to sit. After the second acupuncture treatment, I just felt like I had a bruise on my tailbone, which I did. I went to the ER for x-rays the day I fell, and they told me to just take it easy and gave me oxy because there's nothing they could do for a bruised butt. I think if you're in pain most MDs just give you drugs, which is great, but for muscular/skeletal injuries its often better for healing if you can move around. Which the chiro treatments helped me do. Anecdotal, I know, but my ass doesn't hurt anymore, so I'm happy. Also, what's the harm? If it works it works, but if it doesn't work it doesn't do further harm, so why not give it a whirl?
