These studies give hope! Read about how acupuncture and herbal medicine help improve nerve pain, weakness, and numbness.
Effects of Acupuncture on Neuropathic Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (P3.306)1
“The majority of trials demonstrate a positive effect of acupuncture over control in the treatment of neuropathy.”
Effect of acupuncture vs sham procedure on chemotherapy -induced peripheral neuropathy symptoms: a randomized controlled trial2
“compared with usual care, acupuncture resulted in significant improvement in CIPN (chemotherapy induced PERIPHERAL neuropathy)symptoms.”
Potential mechanisms of acupuncture for neuropathic pain based on somatosensory system3
“Acupuncture inhibited neuronal activity caused by neuropathic pain, through reducing pain-related ion channels and receptors activation…The cumulative evidence demonstrated that acupuncture provided an alternative or adjunctive therapy for neuropathic pain.”
- Abuaisha BB, Costanzi JB, Boulton AJ. Acupuncture for the treatment of chronic painful peripheral diabetic neuropathy: a long-term study. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 1998 Feb;39(2):115-21. doi: 10.1016/s0168-8227(97)00123-x. PMID: 9597381. ↩︎
- Bao T, Patil S, Chen C, et al. Effect of Acupuncture vs Sham Procedure on Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy Symptoms: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2020;3(3):e200681. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.0681 ↩︎
- Ma X, Chen W, Yang NN, Wang L, Hao XW, Tan CX, Li HP, Liu CZ. Potential mechanisms of acupuncture for neuropathic pain based on somatosensory system. Front Neurosci. 2022 Sep 20;16:940343. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2022.940343. PMID: 36203799; PMCID: PMC9530146. ↩︎