Acupuncture Eases Pain in Pregnant Women
A Yale School of Medicine study recently published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology found that acupuncture can be used successfully to treat lower back and pelvic pain in women who are pregnant.
According to the study, pregnant women who received 1-week continuous auricular acupuncture treatment reported significantly less pain compared with those who received sham acupuncture or no treatment.
The study concluded that, “For a majority of participants receiving therapeutic acupuncture, pain relief was substantial and led to improvement of functional status. Hence, this study supports that use of acupuncture at specific auricular points is a safe and effective nonpharmacologic treatment of an important clinical entity for which there are currently few, if any, effective treatments.”
