{"id":8072,"date":"2020-11-06T22:03:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T19:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.satory.gr\/?p=8072"},"modified":"2020-11-23T20:37:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T17:37:24","slug":"acupuncture-therapy-for-chronic-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.satory.gr\/en\/chronic-pain\/acupuncture-therapy-for-chronic-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Acupuncture Therapy for Chronic Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Pain lasting more than three months is generally described as &#8220;chronic&#8221;.<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">It is believed that after this period, the pain ceases to be protective, but, due to the persistence of the initial damage \/ inflammation, a chemical environment has been formed that now enhances it.\u00a0The brain plasticity\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 18.6667px;\">theory<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica;\">, which is the ability of the nervous system to change, depending on the stimuli it receives from the environment, explains part of the physiology of chronic pain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14pt;\">Acupuncture has long been recognized as an effective treatment for chronic pain. In 2012, a study found acupuncture was better than no acupuncture or simulated acupuncture for the treatment of four chronic pain conditions, such as:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8074 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.satory.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/\u03c7\u03c1\u03cc\u03bd\u03b9\u03bf-\u03c0\u03cc\u03bd\u03bf-satory-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.satory.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/\u03c7\u03c1\u03cc\u03bd\u03b9\u03bf-\u03c0\u03cc\u03bd\u03bf-satory-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.satory.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/\u03c7\u03c1\u03cc\u03bd\u03b9\u03bf-\u03c0\u03cc\u03bd\u03bf-satory.jpg 487w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica;\">Back and neck pain <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica;\">Osteoarthritis (\u201cdegenerative joint disease\u201d or \u201cwear and tear arthritis)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica;\"> Chronic headache <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica;\">Shoulder pain<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14pt;\">Acupuncture and electroacupuncture are therapies that are most popular in all the pain clinics in the modern world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">References<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">Vickers AJ, Cronin AM, Maschino AC, et al. Acupuncture for Chronic Pain<span class=\"subtitle\"><span class=\"colon-for-citation-subtitle\">:\u00a0<\/span>Individual Patient Data Meta-analysis<\/span>.\u00a0Arch Intern Med.\u00a02012;172(19):1444\u20131453.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica;\">MacPherson H, Vertosick EA, Foster NE, Lewith G, Linde K, Sherman KJ, Witt CM, Vickers AJ. The persistence of the effects of acupuncture after a course of treatment: a meta-analysis of patients with chronic pain. Pain. 2017 May;158(5):784-793.\u00a0<\/span><\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row pix_padding_top=&#8221;pix-top-no-padding&#8221; pix_padding_bottom=&#8221;pix-bottom-no-padding&#8221; gradient_colors=&#8221;%5B%7B%7D%5D&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_btn title=&#8221;Contact us&#8221; color=&#8221;turquoise&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fa fa-phone&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; link=&#8221;url:%2Fen%2Fcontacts||target:%20_blank|&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_btn title=&#8221;Book an appointment&#8221; color=&#8221;turquoise&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fa fa-calendar&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; link=&#8221;url:%2Fen%2Fappointment||target:%20_blank|&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_btn title=&#8221;Get directions&#8221; color=&#8221;turquoise&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fa fa-map-marker&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fgoo.gl%2Fmaps%2F1gKVQVcripVhmYwC8||target:%20_blank|&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Pain lasting more than three months is generally described as &#8220;chronic&#8221;. It is believed that after this period, the pain ceases to be protective, but, due to the persistence of the initial damage \/ inflammation, a chemical environment has been formed that now enhances it.\u00a0The brain plasticity\u00a0theory, which is the ability of the nervous system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chronic-pain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.satory.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8072\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.satory.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.satory.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.satory.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.satory.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=8072"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.satory.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8072\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8227,"href":"https:\/\/www.satory.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8072\/revisions\/8227\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.satory.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8079\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.satory.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=8072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.satory.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=8072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.satory.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=8072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}