Contemporary Medical Acupuncture

Contemporary Medical Acupuncture

Contemporary Medical Acupuncture is a peripheral nerve stimulation technique, in which fine acupuncture needles are inserted into anatomically defined sites and stimulated manually or with electricity for the therapeutic purpose of changing abnormal activity of the nervous system.

Contemporary Medical Acupuncture is mechanism-based, not disease-based. Therapeutic goals and treatment targets are selected based on the identified neurological dysfunctions contributing to the clinical presentation of the symptoms. Sometimes Contemporary Medical Acupuncture treatments result in transient amelioration or disappearance of the symptoms, and other times results in permanent resolution of the dysfunction.