Acupuncture for Muscle Spasm

This lady was having some muscle spasm in her paraspinal muscles. These are the group of muscles that support your back, they run either side of your spine and help you bend, twist your torso, arch your back and needless to say cause you a lot of problems if they are in spasm. I gave her some advice and exercises to try and I used acupuncture for relief from the spasm. I used points along the bladder meridian which is exactly where her spasm was located. Notice the nice healthy red glow surrounding the needles. This is called Deqi, it shows a good strong response to the needles and is a positive sign of increased blood flow to the area which is what we hope to achieve with acupuncture. Luckily in this case her pain settled after one treatment which is an amazing outcome, usually it takes a few more sessions to get this result. This was most likely because her problem was very acute which made it much easier to treat! A definite success story.