Can Acupuncture Help With Shingles Nerve Pain

As you might imagine we have been asked about this many times over the years.

Can acupuncture help with shingles nerve pain.

Acupuncture is known to be extremely effective in treating pain. I hope you enjoyed this article on just one of many valuable uses of acupuncture. In the case of shingles it affects about 1 million people in the united states each year and 1 in 10 people develop postherpetic neuralgia nerve pain from damaged nerves due to shingles that lasts months or years after the rash goes away. The treatment of shingles has historically been treated by acupuncture within the traditional chinese medicine tcm system for well over 1 000 years.

Shingles can be a terribly distressing condition whose after effects can persist for months or even years. Acupuncture relieves pain due to shingles reduces the need for painkillers speeds the healing of herpes zoster lesions and reduces the incidence of postherpetic neuralgia phn. The shingles viral infection is characterized by painful blisters usually located in a single strip on either side of the trunk neck or face. The treatment of post herpetic pain is an area which has been heavily researched in china as our factsheet.

Tianjing university of traditional chinese medicine researchers combined acupuncture with standard drug therapy. Acupuncture especially if started early can help resolve the outbreak faster treat the pain prevent nerve damage and chronic post herpetic neuralgia pain as well as helping to build the immune system back up to prevent another outbreak.