How does acupuncture differ from trigger point injections or cortisone injections?
The original reason why physician started doing trigger point injections was to trigger the healing process. Some how the insurance companies would not pay for a simple lidocaine injection some medication had to be injected. And that’s when doctors started using steroids. In some cases the steroids can be beneficial. But again somehow in our society we think more is better so that if you inject too much steroids into tissue the tissue will die. It will become atrophied and wither away. I have photographs of areas of the body that have withered away because of steroid use. Can you imagine causing the tissue to wither away around your spine? Your spine will be, very weak and unstable almost guaranteeing the need for some type of stabilizing surgery. Doctors, in my opinion are actually harming patient by injecting steroids in and around the spine. Why won’t Acupuncturists look at my MRI scan?The MRI scans, CAT scans and x-rays are images of internal structures evaluated by specalist with
