Acupuncture And Acupressure As Pain Relief

Acupuncture is widely used to relieve pain from various parts of the body

. This can range from mild pain in an overstressed knee, to excruciating pain from an outbreak of shingles.

Pain is a signal from your body telling you that something is not right. Of course, acupuncture will not heal a broken leg (but it might lessen the pain!).

However, acute or chronic pain is very often caused by the stresses everyday life imposes on your body.

The body's muscles and skeleton cannot cope with sitting still in front of a monitor for several hours every day, or doing repetitive movements all day.

What happens is that since the muscles never relax long enough an inflammation will slowly develop - and the pain starts.

When muscles hurt, a shoulder or a knee for example, the normal reaction is to tense more and thus a vicious circle is formed. The idea of relaxing and let the body fight the pain is not natural to most of us.

We are conditioned to pop a pain killing pill instead, since it works quickly and we all crave "quick fixes". However, in the long run this will not help your body and the pain you may be experiencing.

If at all possible the underlaying cause of the pain should be researched and removed. If your job demands that you sit in front of a computer ever yday, you should try to have a quick break every 15 - 20 minutes.

Just by getting up and walking or stretching for a minute, and looking away from the screen will work wonders.

It is usually not possible to work without stressing your body and causing some pain, and sometimes we will hurt for no obvious reason.

It is a sign of the times that sales of painkilling drugs is ever increasing - it doubled between 1997 and 2005, also a forecast made by the pharmaceutical industry in the spring of 2010 predicted a massive increase in sales of pain killers.

When acupuncture points are stimulated new research indicates it helps the brain to "turn off" the areas that deal with pain. It also stimulates the body's own pain killing system.

In this way you get the positive acupuncture effects just by resting on the acupressure mat. This has been made into the modern acupressure mat, drawing on old techniques from India, as well as research from the US, Russia and Sweden.

If the pain is not too bad it effectively relieves it completely. If the pain is more severe you will find it helps keep you pain free longer between visits to your acupuncture therapist.

by: Gustaf Eriksson

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