San Francisco Chiropractor Comments:
I have been a fan of acupuncture for many years. In fact, I used to offer it at my previous clinic, Front Street Chiropractic. Often times the combination of acupuncture and chiropractic would do what the other could not do on it's own...especially for certain types of chronic back pain.
The thing is...it was hard to tell right off who might be a candidate for acupuncture...we would always try chiropractic first...which seemed to work most of the time. But when we needed help, we would refer for acupuncture. And the acupuncturist did the same.
And, he had plenty of patients that had tried everything for their back pain and acupuncture was the only thing that helped. I myself had a bad bout of TMJ one time and nothing helped but acupuncture. I have also had many relatives that I have referred for acupuncture that now get treatment on a regular basis.
Anyway...here is an excellent video on Acupuncture and Back Pain from www.WebMD.com. Check it out and tell me what you think by commenting below. Acupuncture has been around for thousands of years and there is a mound of research that supports it's place in our health-care system. We may not understand exactly how it works...but it works....and that's what matters most.
Dr. Eben Davis is clinic director of Executive Express Chiropractic in the SF Financial District. To make an appointment call 415-392-2225.
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