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Acupuncture helps woman in severe pain
A woman suffering from fibromyalgia says acupuncture relieved her pain when all else failed.
how are things feeling vicki peters hopes an ancient practice will relieve her current chronic pain the pain is pretty horrendous there are flare-ups which become even more debilitating on a typical day your pain may be just maybe a five on a scale of one to ten diagnosed with fibromyalgia a couple of years ago she went to every doctor took every test and even tried modern medicine you become a little leery of taking a pill every day and it really not working and i know that it did not work during the times of the flare-ups desperate and willing to try really anything to stop the excruciating pain she opened her mind to an ancient eastern tradition called acupuncture the theory of acupuncture is that there is an energy that controls the function of every cell tissue and organ in the body what we use with the acupuncture are very small needles that are placed along the skin hitting certain points along those meridians by hitting those points we're essentially moving the energy we're balancing out the meridians we're making the body function better overall there is no pain involved with these needles i look forward to coming here i this is my nap time so let's go ahead and take a deep breath in vicky got three treatments a week in the beginning and how she feeling now she says her family could tell you they keep saying where is my mother and who are you because i'm exercising i've lost weight i feel great i love life you know and i really attribute that to this practice and this acupuncture that i've been you know experiencing and just a complete 180 degree turn around but olston says they are taking the place of primary care or specialty doctors and many of their patients use this as a complementary treatment to western medicine
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