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Acupuncture

Hergé
1 month ago

Hi. 

Have any of you tried acupuncture specifically for chronic stress? I've had it for back pain and found it quite effective.

I've tried everything else I can think of including all the usual meds and even hypnotherapy and relaxation techniques but all to no avail.

Thanks in advance 

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  • 1 month ago

    I had it at a pain clinic and apart from when I had a session when I had a frozen muscle in my shoulder found it no use whatsoever. But, the type of acupuncture used within the NHS and by many others is whats called symptomatic accupunture, this was the only sort of acupuncture allowed by Chairman Mao during the cultural revolution. It seeks to replicate the western approach of treating symptoms as they arise. Traditional accupuncture takes a different more holistic approach and aims to keep you well, rather than just treating you when you're sick. I would like to try traditional accupuncture, we're lucky in the UK as many tradtional practitioners escaped here and set up practices and schools.

    For back pain I'd see an osteopath or chiropractor, if the skeletons out of whack then the muscles will be pulled out of whack too and they will set around an injury site to support it, but this also means greater stress on other areas.

    I think about the only things that worked for chronic stress for me was a couple of weeks on a silent meditation retreat.

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  • 1 month ago

    I had it at a pain clinic and apart from when I had a session when I had a frozen muscle in my shoulder found it no use whatsoever. But, the type of acupuncture used within the NHS and by many others is whats called symptomatic accupunture, this was the only sort of acupuncture allowed by Chairman Mao during the cultural revolution. It seeks to replicate the western approach of treating symptoms as they arise. Traditional accupuncture takes a different more holistic approach and aims to keep you well, rather than just treating you when you're sick. I would like to try traditional accupuncture, we're lucky in the UK as many tradtional practitioners escaped here and set up practices and schools.

    For back pain I'd see an osteopath or chiropractor, if the skeletons out of whack then the muscles will be pulled out of whack too and they will set around an injury site to support it, but this also means greater stress on other areas.

    I think about the only things that worked for chronic stress for me was a couple of weeks on a silent meditation retreat.

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