Back pain is one of the most traumatic pain affecting almost every person sometimes or other during his life. The present life style of long travel and working in computers have increased the possibility more. Ladies are prone to the problem either after child birth or during menopause when the pelvic area becomes very weak.
The back pain can be either in the upper back involving shoulder and hand pain or the lower back involving pelvic area and the legs. It is generally connected to one of the spinal vertebrae. It may be the neck , thoracic or lumbar – sacral vertebrae as per the area of the pain.
Acupuncture offers excellent remedy both for the management of pain as well complete eradication of pain if the problem is not chronic and is of fairly recent origin. Rather it is advised if Acupuncture is employed as the first line of treatment it may avoid costly investigations like MRI and others.
In Acupuncture approach there are three fields-
- To reduce the pain by use of analgesic point stimulation.
- To improve working of the organ behind the disturbed area – If upper area thoracic organs like lungs and heart, if lower area then digestive organs like stomach,liver and if still lower back intestines and kidney will be strengthened.
- Alleviate the pain from the local point stimulation as well remote corresponding point stimulation and bring in energy flow to the affected parts.