How Many Treatments
Will Be Necessary?
- The frequency
and duration of treatment depends on the chronicity of the pain,
the severity of associated muscle spasm and the responsiveness
of the individual to acupuncture treatment. For patients suffering
from pain of recent onset, it is not uncommon for just a single
or several treatments to permanently resolve the problem. Many
patients will feel better initially, but then experience gradual
recurrence after several days or several weeks. Treatment interval
will depend on this time occurrence. Duration of relief following
acupuncture is expected to increase after each treatment. For
patients suffering from chronic, long standing pain, or pain
associated with severe muscle spasm, one or two treatments a
week will be initially recommended. As the pain and muscle spasm
lessen, ther will be a gradual lengthening of time between treatments
until satisfacoty resolution of the problem occurs.
