Acupuncture for pain relief
Acupuncture is fast gaining acceptance in mainstream medicine right across the Western world.
It's already used routinely in several Australian hospitals and is currently undergoing a trial in three Melbourne hospitals to alleviate pain from acute migraines, back pain and ankle sprain. Researchers have just mapped acupuncture's effect on the brain and have found that it changes specific neural structures, deactivating the areas in the brain associated with the processing of
