Using acupuncture to treat pain is catching on

Posted by DAAN on August 5, 2008 under Acupuncture |

Acupuncture is increasingly a treatment of choice for pain management

At 11 a.m. every Friday, while most are nibbling lunch, Kelly Henning of Spartanburg finds relief from her fibromyalgia, a chronic pain condition, in a hair-thin needle.

Alex C. Hicks Jr./alex.hicks@shj.com
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Betty Shuford, a licensed acupuncturist, treats Kelly Henning with acupuncture. Henning uses the treatment to relieve pain from her fibromyalgia.
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“My tennis shoes were almost dry rotting because it had been that long since I had put them on, and now I can go swimming with the kids, I can run in the backyard and I can play with them,” she said.

Henning, 31, attributes her newfound physical freedom to her weekly sessions of acupuncture therapy. Faced with a long list of ailments, including chronic pain and migraines, Henning began sessions of acupuncture at Abiada Spa in downtown Spartanburg in April.