Are acupuncture needles like getting a shot at the doctors office?
Patients who have received inoculations or other medical injections from a hypodermic needle are sometimes fearful that acupuncture treatments will be as painful. But such is not the case. Medical hypodermic needles are stiff, hollow, and thick for forcing liquid into the patient’s flesh, usually an uncomfortable, if not painful procedure. Acupuncture needles are the exact opposite. They are fine, flexible, thin needles, no bigger around than a human hair or a piece of thread.
