Acupuncture Gone Wrong

A 47 year old woman went to a clinic to have acupuncture treatment for back pain. The treatment involved the Acupuncturist inserting a number of needles in to the woman’s back. However, at some point during the treatment the Acupuncturist walked out of the room. However, to the woman’s surprise, the Acupuncturist failed to return, leaving the woman alone in the room, lying on the treatment table, with needles in her back whilst the practice had been closed and locked up. The woman had to call 911 after she had set the motion detectors off whilst trying to get out of the practice.

The woman somehow managed to remove the needles from her back. Luckily, the woman was taken home and did not sustain any injuries other than perhaps a fear of being left alone!

Acupuncture is a remedy that a lot of people feel helps to reduce muscle pain and back pain. This remedy isn’t proven to work for everyone or to be for everyone but it has worked for a lot of people. It works in what seems like a rather painful way but can often have very desirable results. Basically needles are injected into various parts of the body to relieve pain or for therapeutic services.

According to : www.nhs.uk/acupuncture it states:

There is some evidence that acupuncture works for a small number of conditions, including migraine and post-operative nausea. However, there is little or no scientific evidence that acupuncture works for many of the conditions for which it is often used. More scientific research is needed to establish whether acupuncture is effective against these and other conditions.

Thousands of people swear by this remedy and feel it is a more traditional way to relieve pain rather than by the use of medication and pills, but others take the view that it is very painful and not always 100% effective. At the end of the day, it’s your choice to decide which route you wish to take. Just make sure you are informed about the procedure as much as possible and you don’t get left on the treatment table.