Chronic neck pain? Look to the East for relief - Brief Article

Better Nutrition, Sept, 2001

That stiff neck bothering you again? Maybe you should delay the massage appointment and go for acupuncture, first. A new study published in the British Medical Journal looked at acupuncture compared to massage as an effective treatment for chronic neck pain.

Over 150 patients, ages 18 to 85, with chronic neck pain, were randomly treated with either acupuncture, massage or "sham" laser acupuncture. How did they fare? The acupuncture group showed a "significantly greater improvement in motion related pain compared with massage," stated the report.