The most asked question from people who are new to acupuncture is “Is it painful?” The needles used at Berkeley Acupuncture Clinic are hair-thin and are not designed to cut the skin. They are inserted gently and shallowly and the experience is nothing like having an injection. Most people don’t even know I’ve inserted the needles.
In the last few decades, there has been a rapid growth in the awareness and use of Chinese Medicine in Western countries. In 1993, the Food and Drug Administration estimated that Americans made up to 12 million visits per year to acupuncture practitioners and spent upwards of half a billion dollars on acupuncture treatments. This rapid rise in popularity is due in part to patients who have tried acupuncture and gotten successful results then tell their friends. And in part due to recent clinical research supporting the efficacy of acupuncture for a variety of conditions.
Some of the issues we see at Berkeley Acupuncture Clinic:
- Low back pain
- Neck pain
- Sciatica
- Tennis elbow
- Knee pain
- Periarthritis of the shoulder
- Sprains
- Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)
- Headache
- Dental pain
- Temporomandibular (TMJ) dysfunction
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Labor induction
- Correction of malposition of fetus (breech presentation)
- Morning sickness
- Nausea and vomiting
- Postoperative pain
- Stroke
- Essential hypertension
- Primary hypotension
- Renal colic
- Leucopenia
- Adverse reactions to radiation or chemotherapy
- Allergic rhinitis, including hay fever
- Biliary colic
- Depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke)
- Acute bacillary dysentery
- Primary dysmenorrhea
- Acute epigastralgia
- Peptic ulcer
- Acute and chronic gastritis
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