Scientific Proof to How your Body react to Acupuncture - Cervical Spondylosis
Frequent sessions of Acupuncture will treat Cervical Spondylosis and its accompanying neck and shoulder symptoms.
Cervical spondylosis (CS) is caused by degeneration in the muscles, tendons, joints, and bones of the neck and shoulder and the main symptoms are pain and stiffness in neck, numbness or radiating pain to fingers and arms.
The current goals for treatment of CS neck pain are to diminish pain intensity, facilitate neck movement, and restore daily mobility and neck function. The common therapies available today are non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, muscle relaxants, painkillers and analgesics, physical training, stress management techniques.
Acupuncture has the function of dredging the meridians, regulate qi and blood, bring vitality to the diseased location by strengthening the tissues and eliminate adhesion and edema between the local cervical nerves and the surrounding tissues.
Below are the scientific papers that support the fact that acupuncture treat cervical spondylosis and its accompanying symptoms.
Conclusion: Acupuncture confers analgesic effects through various mechanisms. In terms of the neurophysiological mechanisms, acupuncture activates the activating endogenous antinociceptive systems and decremental suppression systems to relieve pain. In terms of the neurochemical mechanisms, interactions between different ‘classical’ neurotransmitters in the prefrontal cortex mediate the inhibition of pain perception. Serotonin has been implicated in the modulation of central and peripheral pain.
Conclusion: Acupuncture has played an important role in reducing symptoms and improving hemodynamics, which can better relieve the discomfort of the patient’s head and neck.
