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Does Acupuncture Treat Back Pain Effectively?

Does Acupuncture Treat Back Pain Effectively? (0:33)

Many studies and clinical evidence have shown that acupuncture is indeed very effective for relieving back pain. Watch as acupuncture expert Daniel Hsu, DAOM, discusses how a series of acupuncture treatments can work to relieve chronic back pain.

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Well many studies have shown that acupuncture treats all kinds of pains and especially low back pain. There's just a very very large major study about that and the results are actually fantastic for acupuncture for back pain. Acupuncture is like a therapy, like with any therapy is you're going to have a course of treatment, your practitioner is going to create a treatment plan for you and you may feel very very good after just one treatment but in order to really, for the treatment to really solidify and for you to get permanent results, long standing results, you really should go back for a few treatments to get fully healed.