Low back pain can be from a wide variety of issues and the intensity can also range from that slight twinge to the horrendous pain that radiates down the leg, also known as sciatica. Bad back injuries can plague patients for their whole lives. Acupuncture is an effective modality for finding relief from that nagging back pain.

Trigger points, or muscle knots, are sore spots in skeletal muscle tissue that can cause pain and lead to reflective pain in other nearby muscles. They may also become chronic, causing conditions like myofascial pain syndrome. To manage these knots, trigger point injections can help.

Everybody deals with injuries at some point in their lives, which can lead to pain in their musculoskeletal tissue. Many therapies can help these issues, but prolotherapy is an alternative solution that helps the body heal itself.

Acupuncture does work. Quite well actually. It’s endorsed by the National Health Institute and the World Health Organization. Some of the top universities in the world have done research on acupuncture and reported positive findings.