{"id":17836,"date":"2025-09-15T14:32:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/?p=17836"},"modified":"2025-09-15T14:32:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:32:40","slug":"are-benefits-of-acupuncture-for-sciatica-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/15\/are-benefits-of-acupuncture-for-sciatica-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Are benefits of acupuncture for sciatica real?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is based on positive and negative energies generated by food intake, environment and lifestyles. Acupuncture is one of its mainstays for <a href=\"\/remedies-treatments\/sciatigon-sciatica-symptoms-treatment.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sciatica<\/a>\u00a0nerve treatment. Despite its popularity and effectiveness in many cases, acupuncture has not undergone much scrutiny from the researchers. There are many stories that tell us about the immediate relief and permanent cure that acupuncture is capable of. The fact is that success stories get advertised while incidents where acupuncture failed to treat do not get published unless there is an unfortunate happening. Like all alternative treatments, acupuncture too does not have the backing of drug companies as there is nothing in it for them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>Conventional medicine believes that\u00a0<a href=\"\/remedies-treatments\/sciatigon-sciatica-symptoms-treatment.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sciatica<\/a>\u00a0can be caused by one or more of the following reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A compression of the\u00a0<a href=\"\/remedies-treatments\/sciatigon-sciatica-symptoms-treatment.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sciatic Nerve<\/a>\u00a0that exits from the base of the spine.<\/li>\n<li>Compression of the\u00a0<a href=\"\/remedies-treatments\/sciatigon-sciatica-symptoms-treatment.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sciatic Nerve<\/a>\u00a0due to a slipped disc due to trauma or a natural process.<\/li>\n<li>Degenerative disc disease.<\/li>\n<li>The narrowing of the spinal cord due to the natural ageing process.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"post-teaser\"><b><a title=\"Permanent Link: Are benefits of acupuncture for sciatica real?\" href=\"\/general\/are-benefits-of-acupuncture-for-sciatica-real\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read the rest of this post here<\/a>\u00a0(690 words, 1 image, estimated 2:46 mins reading time)<\/b><\/div>\n<p><em>If you enjoyed this post, make sure you\u00a0<a href=\"\/feed\/\">subscribe to my RSS feed<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is based on positive and negative energies generated by food intake, environment and lifestyles. Acupuncture is one of its mainstays for Sciatica\u00a0nerve treatment. Despite its popularity and effectiveness in many cases, acupuncture has not undergone much scrutiny from the researchers. There are many stories that tell us about the immediate relief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,129,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-therapies","category-general-health-info","category-pain-management-diy-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}