Acupuncture helps stress and anxiety. How though, is anxiety defined in our culture? According to the website Anxiety.org, anxiety disorders are characterized by a general feature of excessive fear (i.e. emotional response to perceived or real threat) and/or anxiety (i.e. worrying about a future threat) and can have negative behavioral and emotional consequences.
Acupuncture helps the different types of anxiety that manifests in people.
Do you:
- Often have a sense of dread,
- Have butterflies in your midsection,
- Have trouble sleeping,
- Start to hyperventilate,
- Have increased heart rate or
- Break out in a sweat?
Acupuncture has known benefits to help with anxiety.
However anxiety manifests for you, acupuncture can reduce your anxiety and help you feel calm and normal again.
In addition to the studies listed below, we have our own case studies of patients who have come in for anxiety and panic attacks with great results from acupuncture. One female, age 35, had been put on heart medications to stop her racing heart and sense of panic. After several treatments, she was able to get off the heart meds and live her life like a normal mother and business owner. Consistent treatments over time helped her and after she was better, doing follow up treatments as part of her self care routine made a tremendous difference in her quality of life.
Research on how acupuncture helps with anxiety.
Because acupuncture helps stress and anxiety it helps to look at the research. A meta-analysis done in 2022 of 27 different studies, showed that acupuncture can effectively relieve the symptoms of anxiety with fewer side effects than the control group. Plus, our personal experience with helping patients speaks for itself. There is nothing better than helping someone who has come in and feels like they’re going to lose their mind, then, when they leave, they are so calm and chill they feel like they took medication, but they didn’t!
But don’t take our word on it, below I’ve included some more information from the research. We look forward to helping you overcome your mental distress.
Let us help your anxiety.
Call us at 910.202-4248. We will get you in for a consultation to help you get your life back!
According to Acupuncture for Anxiety: Benefits, Side Effects, and What to Expect (healthline.com), there have been several studies done about the effects of acupuncture on anxiety. These studies have focused mostly on generalized anxiety disorder and suggest that acupuncture is helpful in treating general anxiety. One promising study from 2015, for example, found that acupuncture improved symptoms in people with anxiety that didn’t respond to other treatments, including psychotherapy and medication. Participants received ten 30-minute sessions of acupuncture over the course of 12 weeks. They experienced a significant reduction in their anxiety, even 10 weeks after treatment.
Meta Analysis from NIH: Efficacy of acupuncture for generalized anxiety disorder: A PRISMA-compliant systematic review and meta-analysis