Quite a few people actually fall asleep during their treatment. The needles used are disposable and come in pre-sterilized, individual packages. This assures that there is no transmission of communicable disease from patient to patient. Most practitioners are also trained to use a number of adjunctive therapies. Patients often experience the most dramatic results in the first treatment.
Some patients experience an immediate total or partial relief of their pain or other symptoms.
This relief may last or some pain may return. In a few cases, there may be no immediate relief only to notice the pain diminish over the next couple of days. Generally, you should expect to feel better. Muscular and nervous system disorders Migraine headaches, regular headaches, certain facial paralysis or nerve pain, inflammation of joints and nerve endings, frozen shoulder, sciatica, tennis elbow, bed wetting, low back pain, arthritis, osteoarthritis, sprains and strains. Disorders of the Ear, Nose and Throat Toothaches, pain after having a tooth pulled, earaches, sinus inflammation, nasal inflammation or dryness.