Acupuncture For Children Research Paper

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Acupuncture for Children
Despite not being widely known Acupuncture for Children is becoming a more widely used treatment for headaches, stomach problems, joint pain, depression and other frequent health issues. Children are often apprehensive to have acupuncture as a treatment because of the stereotype of large needles being used but in reality the needles are extremely fine and often you cannot feel them at all.
There has been a recent study carried out by an anaesthesiologist Yuan-Chu Lin, M.D. to explore the effects of acupuncture for children. The study involved 243 children between the ages of 6 months and 18 years old. All of the children in the study had sought acupuncture therapy for headaches, stomach pain, back pain and a variety

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