Acupuncture & Acupunctor in Brussels
Acupuncture has been practiced since the dawn of civlisation in China. Its name was given by missionaries from the 16th and 17th centuries, who introduced it in the Western World. A version of the original manuscript was translated for the most by a sinologist in 1954 and by an historian in 1957. From that time on, a group of pionner physicians spread this practice in the Western World, surprising the public with the therapeutic results. Since the 70ies, a regain of interest for acupuncture emerged, as research in neurophysiology discovered the pain pathway, the mechanism of action of morphine and the endomorphine our body synthesises
The technique consists in inserting needles at given points on the skin, chosen according to a millenary experience and identified for their effects : some points would decrease pain, other would decongestion an organ, other would give back tonus to a muscle group, other had a remarkable effect on the overall health state. Needles were made of gold or silver;nowadays, they are made of surgical steel and designed for single use.
The most frequent indication for acupuncture is the treatment of chronic pain, but also many disorders that are difficult to adress with conventional treatments. The World Health Organisation gave in 2003 and 2006 a list of pathologies for which acupuncture is effective : headaches and migrain, facial nevralgy, pain after a zona, chronic nasal congestion, ear buzzing, nervosism, anxiety, sleeping disorsers, rheumatism pain, lombar and sciatic pain, shoulder periarthitis, tennis-elbow, knee arthrosis, stiff neck, so-called deafferentation pain occuring when nerves have been injured or after limbs amputation, scar pain.
There are only few contraindications : innate coagulation disorders(hemophilia, lack of coagulation factors) or acquired coagulation disorders (prevention or treatment of thrombosis).
Before practicing acupuncture the physician has to interview the patient and perform a complete medical examination. In some cases, the practitionner may refer the patient to other specialists to treat a disease for which acupuncture cannot provide an appropriate treatment (e.g.pathology of a main organ, cancer).
Today acupuncture is spreading because it is both effective and innocuous; it combines with modern medical approches to offer the most successful therapies.
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