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Originally Posted by troutman
I think what the research is showing is that accupuncture "works" in that it makes some patients feel better, but it is not the needles that are doing anything - it is the ritual and the placebo effect that is effective.
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When I was 13 years old I had a lower back injury and physiotherapy was not working at all...I went for acupuncture and it cured my back within 4 treatments.
Within the last two years I have been having knee issues so I went for IMS (Inter-Muscular Stimulation) which is more of an active form of acupuncture. This most definitely works.
1 month ago I got whiplash and again went for a combination of Acupuncture-Chiro-IMS-Massage and the combination worked marvelously.
Acupuncture, especially IMS definitely does work. It is more of an active form of acupuncture and I have had great success with it...and that's without doing the exercises the docs told me to do. I'm terrible with that.
Anyways, I'd suggest going and trying it out yourself...for every single Pain/Injury you'll get 1000 different opinions on what to do. Ultimately it is your body and you know what will work and won't work.