One of the most common problems faced by students and office workers alike is neck pain. If you are spending several hours per day sitting at a desk or commuting in the San Diego traffic, you are likely suffering from neck pain. Also, if you’ve ever had a sports injury, whiplash incident, or if you sleep on a bad bed mattress or use a bad pillow, you probably have neck pain. The good news is that many people get relief when seeking acupuncture in San Diego -- even when nothing else seems to work! Clinical trials conducted by scientists and clinicians over the past three decades repeatedly confirm that acupuncture is safe and effective for neck pain.
In Complementary & Alternative Medicine, a meta-analysis of 17,922 patients also showed that acupuncture in San Diego was useful for relieving patients of back and neck pain, as well as osteoarthritis and chronic headaches! The patients who received true acupuncture had remarkably better pain relief than patients who had only gotten “sham” or fake acupuncture. The patients who were in the worst pain at the beginning of the study had the most pain relief from acupuncture.
A very large study with a total of 14,161 patients in Germany who had been suffering from neck pain for more than six months showed that acupuncture brought them significant long-term relief. The untreated control (non-acupuncture) group had no improvement in their pain. The neck pain patients were treated with acupuncture 15 times over three months. Six months after the study, they still reported neck pain relief.
The methodology of all of these studies varied considerably, but the acupuncture patients still experienced long-term relief. Try San Diego acupuncture for your neck pain, and you’ll feel the difference!