Acupuncture is a chronic pain treatment that is recommended in the NICE chronic pain guidelines. With acupuncture, very fine thin needles are placed in specific places in the skin to relax muscles and stimulate nerves to relieve chronic pain.
Acupuncture can give you short or long-term pain relief depending on the type of chronic pain you are treating. You may need to get acupuncture more than once for it to be an effective chronic pain treatment. Normally, you’ll have one or two sessions of acupuncture per week for a few months.
It’s important to make sure you get acupuncture treatment for chronic pain from a qualified healthcare professional, so we recommend that you get acupuncture at a pain clinic or with a certified physiotherapist.
