Menstrual Pain and Acupuncture

Medical researchers in Australia and New Zealand have found that acupuncture treatment significantly reduces period pain intensity, duration and symptoms over time, with improvements being sustained up to a year after treatment.
 
The researchers from Western Sydney University and the University of Auckland also found that manual acupuncture, where thin needles are inserted at certain points on the body, provided more relief than electro-acupuncture, which involves a small electrical current passing through the needles.

Research paper: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0180177 

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