Page 14 - Parkinsons disease

When most people hear that acupuncture may

help Parkinson's disease, they have two questions.

1. How does the inserting needles into the

body help treat Parkinson's disease?

2. Does acupuncture hurt?

How Acupuncure helps treat Parkinson's

disease:

The body has numerous electrical flows within

the extracellular matrix and the support cells of the

brain. Here we are not talking about the neurons

themselves but an electrical flow within the

perineural or support cells as well as the ECM.

Decades ago, an orthopedic surgeon by the name of

Robert Becker demonstrated that these electrical

signals change when a tissue is injured or diseased.

This change in the electrical signals helps the cells

of the injured or diseased tissue understand how

their behavior needs to change in order to repair or

compensate for the injury or recover from the