Back Pain and Acupuncture

Do you suffer from a stabbing pain between your shoulder blades? Or a niggling sensation in your lumbar area?

Back pain can take up so many different shapes and forms.

In Chinese medicine, back pain is either a stagnation of Qi (Energy) and Blood, or a deficiency. Location and type of pain, reaction to heat or cold, duration (chronic or acute pain) can tell you a lot about the origin of the problem.

(Electro-)acupuncture, cupping, sometimes moxa, and even herbal formulas can help moving that stagnation and nourish and tonify the affected area.