{"id":6466,"date":"2023-06-19T17:28:19","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T00:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acupuncturecenterinc.com\/?p=6466"},"modified":"2023-06-19T17:28:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T00:28:19","slug":"how-do-i-know-if-acupuncture-treatments-are-helping-me-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.staging-wmplo.xyz\/acu-tom\/how-do-i-know-if-acupuncture-treatments-are-helping-me-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do I Know if Acupuncture Treatments are Helping Me or Not?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>If you have had acupuncture, you may have felt that deep relaxing mediative feeling during the treatment. Your body seems to adjust to just what it needs because sometimes you need a little energy boost, and you leave feeling more alive and vibrant. Other times you are on overdrive, your mind goes a mile a minute, and then you leave feeling relaxed, and calm. The treatment forces you to conserve the energy you need. <\/span><\/p>\n

When your stomach makes a noise or quiets down when I insert a needle on the stomach channel this is a clue it is working. If you feel an itch on your nose when I insert a needle on the liver channel it is working. If you feel a needle in your shoulder, but is in your hand, it is working. If you yawn, let out a deep breath, breath deeper, let your shoulders drop, fall asleep, feel a deep ache at the points, that feeling dissipates, then a feeling of heaviness comes over you. It is working.<\/span><\/p>\n

These are signs that the treatment is working. There is a certain sensation with acupuncture a kind of heaviness, like water flowing, or a small tug like a fish biting a hook. <\/span><\/p>\n

Because you feel good after acupuncture, and it seems to last a few days you are wondering whether the results are permanent or temporary. <\/span><\/p>\n

They are cumulative. Perhaps you have less pain afterwards, and then it seems to creep back in, or come and go. There might be counteractive forces interfering with the therapeutic effect such as you are doing something that is continuing to irritate the painful area.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sometimes we are just not sure because we have become so used to the pain that we don\u2019t recognize it when it is changing. Others may notice that you don\u2019t complain as much, and that you can do more before getting tired.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are some objective ways you can measure your progress.<\/span><\/p>\n

The efficacy of acupuncture is measured by the number treatments needed for maximum pain relief, and the duration of pain relief.\u00a0 It depends on the interaction between a patient\u2019s self-healing potential, the severity and nature of the symptoms, or whether the symptoms or disease is healable. (1).<\/span><\/p>\n

Track your progress<\/strong>: This is how you will know that you are improving. A few people like to say that it is not helping at all. They feel the same. It is usually not true. When you know what positive results to look for you can stop focusing on the negative, and you will decide to see the positive. It becomes a snowball effect in the right direction from there.<\/span><\/p>\n