It seems a strange statement, especially in our country, where there are few doctors who are new to this discipline except through small streams or at least dedicate a few hours of their work in this therapeutic technique.

Instead the rest of the world, acupuncture is used much, much more. In comparison with the existing rehabilitation techniques, one could say that acupuncture is the single most used in the field of rehabilitation, or in functional recovery, either orthopedic, post-traumatic, neurological disease and all painful degenerative diseases.

In Italy it seems to do a strange thing to go dall'agopuntore a sore shoulder, knee, or a cervicobrachialgia for sciatica, almost like going to the magician!

Abroad is perfectly normal, it is easier to find players capable and prepared to be doctors who do not, who carry out work not only effective but also discounted by the national health system and reimbursed by the various personal insurance.

In our country, after years, is finally accepted even if the rehabilitation is often seen in gym way too generic and not very specialized and it has really taken so long to be classified as essential in the various rehabilitation camps.

Today, thank God, is inserted into a hospital official and the course of physical therapy is becoming more full-fledged and complete.

But the painful degenerative diseases, or chronic pain, we still used analgesic drug and physical therapies obsolete and absolutely non-specific such as ultrasound, laser, magnetic fields.

The requirements are made with little conviction and little success, but without asking questions. Physicians, especially physiatrists themselves, consider that there is much to be done and rather than do anything or overdo the drugs using these techniques, but these therapies have been abroad at all in use for many years.

In fact, I will say more, in the United States trying to convince business of acupuncture, patches by APPLIED are selling on the most common crystals containing various unspecified and a ball of plastic capable of producing a pressure sull'agopunto well localized. They are used for sleeping, for pains and other issues, and are generating hype for the usual pyramid selling miracle that transforms the product.

Nothing wrong with that, the better a patch on the verge of heart that HT7, located on the wrist, or Yintang located on the temple, both points fascinating, world famous and known for their calming effect rather than a benzodiazepine. Better a patch or a bracelet to the pressure point of the pericardium that PC6, known for its anti-emetic effect, a drug. Of course, we should not be surprised if it works for a limited time and simple cases, acupuncture is a true 'else and is far more complex even if they try to sell it to easy!

In some American cities there are so many studies or "acupuncture office," as they say, to do the competition as the bakers or the bar from us! In the Netherlands, France, Germany, the non-conventional medicine are much more accepted and used without any hesitation in pediatrics, geriatrics, and of course all the pain is usually musculoskeletal neurological, orthopedic, post-traumatic or degenerative arthritis.

What say we get later in all, I could make time to see patients after surgery for total hip arthroplasty treated with non motor recovery exercises with a block of the hip joint grave, I saw patients with hemiparesis and heard from therapists that do not move the affected side but only the healthy to avoid worsening spasticity! Today, these things never happen again ... thank goodness!

It is considered normal and necessary to perform a post-surgical rehabilitation after any work on the large joints, especially if the patient is younger, but there took long. The only limit is on trauma or dependents of small joints is common for orthopedic suggest it lightly, "you take a nice little ball" or "but, just hello hello face with his hand," instead of articulating the small hand, although easy to move with the other, it is often very painful, are not always mobilized by the patient and especially moplto quickly lose their elasticity.

Acupuncture is the most widely used form of rehabilitation in the world and the most safe, because unlike the motor that requires great knowledge of the recovery time, experience the different techniques and specific indications related to the type of surgery or injury can never do harm.

Move too early or too abruptly made a joint ligament reconstruction, a bone load prematurely not calcified, a move incorrectly spine discectomy work of moving ... always involves some risks and do not move even more, I know very well and I know requires much experience to make decisions.

Instead acupuncture only moves the energy of the patient and, if well executed, the moves exactly at the point of pain but without movement. It 'an internal movement, so no risk of any type, gradually the patient feels better by removing the energy blockages and blood circulation which always accompanies a pain. Doing so can, in a completely spontaneous and without force, to better move the affected districts, or recover faster motor function lost or limited.

I often tell my patients that when they communicate to others their experience of acupuncture and maybe have solved brilliantly peristente chronic pain and disability, they often feel answer that:

"I do not know how to do propio soppportare torture to put the needles, just the thought makes me shudder."

If the unfortunate patient tries to say that this is how we must look at it, the pain from needle is a stupid thing than a real pain chronic or acute speech is clipped in the bud type:

"No look is something I just could never do"

I believe that, given the lack of preparation and confidence of doctors, it is up to their patients about this technique, which works, and especially not good but has risks and is not so little bearable as many think, a massage can be much more painful, for example.

But above all it's worth it, because there is nothing more wonderful as well and did not feel pain, being able to exercise without worrying about back pain or other.

Perhaps it would increase those enrolled in acupuncture, would increase the specialization courses in acupuncture and who knows, acupuncturists experts arrived in hospital or at home, to everyone.

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Tags: Acupuncture , pain relief , pain treatment , functional recovery , rehabilitation

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