Looking at how acupuncture helps with cancer pain.
Daughter comforting mother during cancer treatment.
One of the most common questions I get asked in clinic is “how does acupuncture work?”. In this study in the Journal of Pain Research gives us one answer, from a western medicine perspective. Acupuncture helps to ease pain from cancer. In this study they showed that the pain relief happened almost immediately after needle insertion. They were able to show that “Acupuncture alleviates cancer pain by reducing functional connectivity between injured tissues and the brain, with immediate effects”