Part 2: Back Pain Relief – Fast and Natural – the Real Facts
4) Don’t expect long-lasting or complete relief after just 2-3 treatments.
A typical course of treatment is a minimum of 6-8 30-minute treatments and up to 12-16 treatments. Follow-up treatments may be needed 3-6 months later to help maintain long-lasting relief.
Don’t forget that relief also comes faster – and lasts longer – if you combine your course of acupuncture treatment with other treatments such as topical or systemic herbal remedies or medications and 
exercise.
5) Obtaining good pain relief from acupuncture treatments doesn’t require you to become a Buddhist or pagan.
For some reason – Could be it’s just the way God made us – somehow, sticking little needles in certain places cuts pain – no matter what you believe. It’s not hypnosis, or evil spirits. It just works.
6) Relief of back pain (or neck pain) often lasts for up to 1 year following a course of acupuncture treatment.
Once you obtain 50-70% pain-relief, the improvement in pain-control often lasts for months at a time. In most research studies, pain was reduced at 1 year. This is especially true if there was a course of combined treatment including exercise.
7) Acupuncture treatments in the United States are typically not painful.
Despite having up to a dozen fine needles stuck into your face, feet, hands and other carefully selected meridians, pain from the needles is minimal. When I had 11 needles placed in me, I felt only a slight ache from one of them. This feeling rapidly passed.
My pain-relief lasted over 1 week, from just that one treatment.
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