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Acupuncture successfully reduced pain and disability for people with chronic sciatica in a randomized clinical trial in China. Their improvement, compared to those receiving sham acupuncture ...
Sciatica can be managed with a number of different treatments [45] with the goal of restoring a person's normal functional status and quality of life. [14] When the cause of sciatica is lumbar disc herniation (90% of cases), [4] most cases resolve spontaneously over weeks to months. [46]
They consisted of one observational study on acupuncture side effects, and four randomized controlled trials (RCTs) investigating acupuncture treatment for low back pain, knee osteoarthritis, migraine prophylaxis, and tension-type headache. The trials are considered to be one of the largest clinical studies in the field of acupuncture. [2]
A 2014 review in Nature Reviews Cancer analyzed mouse studies that suggested acupuncture relieves pain via the local release of adenosine, which then triggered nearby A1 receptors. The review found that in those studies, because acupuncture "caused more tissue damage and inflammation relative to the size of the animal in mice than in humans ...
Many reviews suggest there is insufficient scientific evidence to support the use of cupping techniques to combat relevant diseases and chronic pain. [14] Cupping has been characterized as quackery. [6] The lack of apparent benefits of cupping treatments are discussed by Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst in their 2008 book Trick or Treatment. [15]
Some treatments for pain can be harmful if overused. [6] A goal of pain management for the patient and their health care provider is to identify the amount of treatment needed to address the pain without going beyond that limit. [6] Another problem with pain management is that pain is the body's natural way of communicating a problem. [6]