A needle is a needle, no matter how thin. Even so, acupuncture is generally safe, as long as the practitioner takes the right precautions, says traditional Asian medicine expert Daniel Hsu. Watch this video to find out more about acupuncture.
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Well, like with any procedure there is always respect, all acupuncture out there are very well trained now days, there is the training to cleaning those technique, they clean the air properly, everything they use is disposable, acupuncture needles in general are surgical tools or class two medical devices actually and they are very sterile, they're completely sterile and they are made very well.
So generally you won't have any chance of infection in fact I have never heard of an instance of infection myself.
Daniel Hsu, DAOM is a doctor and teacher of acupuncture and traditional Asian medicine. He founded the New York AcuHealth clinic in New York has been published in numerous acupuncture journals.
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