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Acupuncture is a safe and effective healing art backed by more than two thousand years of practice and research. It is used worldwide both as a primary and adjunctive treatment for a wide range of conditions. Generally, people find an acupuncture treatment to be a relaxing experience. This is especially so after they get over any initial hesitation regarding needling. The information below is intended to provide you with basic information regarding what you might experience with your first visit to a practitioner of oriental medicine. Acupuncture is painless:
Unlike the hypodermic needles used by physicians. Hypodermic
needles cut tissue (much in the same way a straw can cut through a potato) so that they can inject medicine or draw blood.
Acupuncture needles are fine and solid, not hollow like a physician's hypodermic needle. Therefore, they only
push tissue aside during insertion. For this reason, acupuncture needle insertion is practically painless. Often people
are not even aware that the needles are in place. During their first acupuncture treatment, the vast majority of people respond
with relief by saying, “Oh! That's it?” Once the needles are in place, some people experience a feeling of warmth,
heaviness, pressure, tingling or a feeling of the qi moving through the channels. The needles in an acupuncture treatment
will remain in place for fifteen to forty minutes depending on the ailment. Acupuncture tends to be very relaxing and many
people fall asleep during treatments.
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