Pain Management and Acupuncture

Acupuncture may not be painful but too many people shiver and turn away from this powerful back pain treatment. If your Pain Management plan for lower back pain is just based on taking pain pills, give some thought to finding a professional and try acupuncture.

I just finished reading a report about a study of 11,630 people with chronic low back pain.

The patients who received acupuncture got up to 15 treatments during the three-month trial period. After that, the researchers followed up with them for another three months.

At the three-month mark, those who got acupuncture enjoyed substantially improved back function. In fact, twice as many acupuncture patients had less pain symptoms as the folks who hadn't got the needle treatment. Even at the six-month mark, at least half of the acupuncture group was still feeling the benefit.

These patients all agreed that the acupuncture did not hurt. They were able to give up pills and all the potentially bad side effects of those pills.

Your Pain Management plan should include at least a consultation on Acupuncture. Acupuncture has a good track record. The biggest problem I see is that most insurance will not cover the treatments. The second problem would be finding a professional.

until next time smile
Sharon
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Pain Management on a Daily Basis

Although I am dealing with Pain Managment, today's post is to get you caught up on what is going on in my life. Last week I sat on jury duty. Talk Pain Management. Sitting for hours during the jury selection and then being picked at 5:30 in the afternoon. Suddenly I have to rearrange my schedule, find child care for the grand daughters and notify my work that I won't be there.

My back is hurting from sitting in those hard wooden chairs. Mostly the tension created by my attitude toward the day is causing my muscles to tense and therefore causing the back and neck pain.

The trial was about a felony assault with a deadly weapon. It was very short with only 3 witnesses and of those two were involved and two totally different stories. Deliberation took 6 hours as we had one person who just wanted so desperately to find him not guilty. She didn't believe in prison or punishment.

By the end of the second day, my head was pounding from all the shouting. I got home about 8:30 that night. Back to court at 8:30 the next day.

During the infrequent breaks (no breaks while we were deliberating) I used my EFT to try to regain my calm and easy my tense muscles. In the evening I took an extra B complex vitamin supplement. Those two things are always at the root of my Pain Management Plan.

On top of that, my daughter had to go out of town and child care issues were paramount. The computer repair is not complete as I have no sound. The seeming final blow was to discover that my web site back up had become corrupted and now I must rebuild the whole thing. We are talking over 400 pages. I have to rebuild it before I can publish new pages because of the navigation links. The only thing I can publish to right now is this blog.

At work, one of the managers called me in to counsel me on missing work. I pointed out that I had called in just as soon as possible after being selected. He back peddled quickly as it is rather illegal to punish anyone because they are serving jury duty.

My daughter is home with a good case of the flu. I am praying she does not pass it around the house. I have been giving her herbal teas to soothe her Pain Symptoms. Everybody else is getting extra doses of B complex and garlic.

I think I may have to talk about foot and toe pain next. The shoes I wore to court did a number on my feet.

Couple of links for you.
http://gethuman.com/us/ Check it out and save this database to find out how to get a human to answer your telephone calls

http://www.mercola.com/2006/sep/5/got_an_ant_problem_use_aspartame.htm
This is a nifty article on using aspartame to kill ants. Shows what it does to humans.


until next time smile

Sharon
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