“How long will it take acupuncture to get rid of neck pain?”
I have neck pain. How long will it take acupuncture to get rid of neck pain?
11 Answers
depends.... too broad a question.... a nice thing about acupuncture is that it works immediately sometimes, although a long standing issue like neck pain can take a bit of time and numerous treatments to unwind. The good news is there are no side effects, and it's not expensive to obtain the treatment.
With each circumstance, it depends on current health and severity of injury. Additionally, the expertise of your practitioner can place a huge role. ~91% of my 12k+ patients experienced relief the initial session. So, its possible to have relief immediately. However, without know your imaging or exact circumstances, its very difficult for me to tell you. Other, more severe patients, they would come consistently 2/wk and would have results of pain reduction/release after the 2nd, up to the 10th session it really depends on many variables. For more precise information, email me directly for a consult: newmansacupilates@gmail.com
We start with 6 sessions at 2x a week for 3 weeks. Everyone responses differently to treatment but usually expect you to be 30-40% better by the 6th session. Then we will taper down to every other week, so on and so forth.
From one session up to 6 sessions, need to know the causes of the neck pain.
Two-three sessions are needed to get rid of neck pain.
4 treatments per year of problem
Neck pain can be caused by many factors like accidents, sports, surgeries, stress and scars.
It can be helped and even eliminated after a few sessions depending on the causes of your unique situations.
It can be helped and even eliminated after a few sessions depending on the causes of your unique situations.
We will exam 1st. Then provide dry needling 1st. Patients will find instant results in general.
Depending on patients’ medical histories and conditions, each patient will have different responses. Patients will have to follow up in 3-7days depending on severity.
Patients will be examined again on how much difference they have experienced since the initial acupuncture treatment.
Then we can give patients a plan for symptomatology.
If we find limitations in improvements, we will apply different plans as a holistic approach.
Depending on patients’ medical histories and conditions, each patient will have different responses. Patients will have to follow up in 3-7days depending on severity.
Patients will be examined again on how much difference they have experienced since the initial acupuncture treatment.
Then we can give patients a plan for symptomatology.
If we find limitations in improvements, we will apply different plans as a holistic approach.
Everyone is different so there's no set answer to how long it will take.
Using massage, acupuncture, and probably herbs, you should feel your neck pain gradually subside, giving relief and hopefully going away.
There are far too many variables in this question to provide any sort of definitive timeline. Why are you experiencing neck pain? How long has the pain persisted? Is the pain always focused in the same place in the neck or does it move around? Does the pain radiate up/down/into the shoulders/into the upper limbs? Do you have any recent imaging of the neck/upper back/shoulders? What does the pain feel like? Is the pain constant or does it come and go? If it comes and goes, what's likely to provoke the pain?
The neck can be a tricky area. There is a high degree of muscle and structural overlap with the upper back and shoulder. It's entirely possible that the pain you're feeling in the neck has its origin somewhere else in the upper back or shoulder.
It's also possible that you may be dealing with a degree of spinal stenosis/disk degeneration/bone spurs/arthritis in the cervical vertebrae. If this is the case, it doesn't make the situation impossible from an acupuncture perspective, but it does make things more complicated.
Then we have to factor in you as an individual. Statistically speaking, there's a 5% non-response rate for acupuncture. In simple terms, this means that about 5% of the population do not respond to acupuncture treatment. There's no test we can give to determine whether or not any prospective patient is in that 5% group, you have to try acupuncture and see what happens. The good news is 95% of people will respond, so odds are in your favor.
Inside the 95% group, people fall out on a spectrum. Some respond very quickly to treatment and some respond more slowly. Again, the only way to figure out whether you are going to respond fast or slow is to try acupuncture and see what happens.
Speaking very generally, a course of treatment is usually something like 8-12 treatments. I've had patients whose issue has resolved in as little as 1-2 treatments and I've had patients who took upwards of 15-20.
I've also had patients whose problem never goes away completely, but the issue will stay under control as long as they get treated on some schedule. Sometimes that's one treatment every 4-6 weeks and sometimes that's two or three treatments per year.
It's up to each patient to decide whether or not they can live with the uncertainty that surrounds an initial acupuncture treatment. I can usually tell where a patient is going to land in terms of total treatments and whether or not we're looking at maintenance by the third or fourth treatment. In order to get there, patients have to be willing to give me 3-4 sessions, though.
The neck can be a tricky area. There is a high degree of muscle and structural overlap with the upper back and shoulder. It's entirely possible that the pain you're feeling in the neck has its origin somewhere else in the upper back or shoulder.
It's also possible that you may be dealing with a degree of spinal stenosis/disk degeneration/bone spurs/arthritis in the cervical vertebrae. If this is the case, it doesn't make the situation impossible from an acupuncture perspective, but it does make things more complicated.
Then we have to factor in you as an individual. Statistically speaking, there's a 5% non-response rate for acupuncture. In simple terms, this means that about 5% of the population do not respond to acupuncture treatment. There's no test we can give to determine whether or not any prospective patient is in that 5% group, you have to try acupuncture and see what happens. The good news is 95% of people will respond, so odds are in your favor.
Inside the 95% group, people fall out on a spectrum. Some respond very quickly to treatment and some respond more slowly. Again, the only way to figure out whether you are going to respond fast or slow is to try acupuncture and see what happens.
Speaking very generally, a course of treatment is usually something like 8-12 treatments. I've had patients whose issue has resolved in as little as 1-2 treatments and I've had patients who took upwards of 15-20.
I've also had patients whose problem never goes away completely, but the issue will stay under control as long as they get treated on some schedule. Sometimes that's one treatment every 4-6 weeks and sometimes that's two or three treatments per year.
It's up to each patient to decide whether or not they can live with the uncertainty that surrounds an initial acupuncture treatment. I can usually tell where a patient is going to land in terms of total treatments and whether or not we're looking at maintenance by the third or fourth treatment. In order to get there, patients have to be willing to give me 3-4 sessions, though.
