Why did you go for acupuncture in the first place? If you had an injury, take it easy after acupuncture. If you had acupuncture for stress, regular activity can resume immediately. Watch this video and learn more about recovery from acupuncture.
That's a good question. After an acupuncture treatment, what you should normally do is kind of assess yourself and see how you're doing, it depends on the type of acupuncture treatment you've got, obviously if you have had a treatment for knee pain, it's not a good idea to go out and start doing really vigorous exercises, but in general though if you're just getting general acupuncture for relaxation or for anything else, you could probably go off and do pretty much anything you wanted to do, just listen to your body, I think that's the best advice I could give.
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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