Reply #255: Acupuncture can be very helpful with pain and inflammation [View All]

[Nothing Without Hope]

And it is also quite pleasant in my experience. (My acupuncturist uses the Japanese style with me and most of her patients, though she is also trained in the Chinese style, which involves deeper needle penetration.) And there are no nasty side effects with acupuncture.

It's a proven fact that pain and inflammation can be helped with acupuncture. I'd recommend checking this out locally - and if you are interested but unsure how to find a good practitioner, I can ask at the place I go if they can make any recommendations for the area based on their connections to the acupuncture "network." (I get my treatments at the Japanese Acupuncture Center, and the New England School of Acupuncture is right next door. They tend to know each other.)