You have an amazing father, I really hope that it does work for you. I don't have any experience myself with it, but my uncle was in several car accidents (getting rear ended) and ended up with back and neck problems. I remembered him talking about getting acupuncture so I called him up to find out how it went for him.

He says they lie when they say you don't feel the needles (he's also extremely fearful of needles)

It did help a lot but isn't a cure all, you'll still have to go back on occasion for maintanence.

It really does depend upon the type of injury and what is setting off the pain, stiffness and/or spasisity. He's recently retired from an education physiotherapist (he worked with handicapped children at the schools, everything from learning how to manage autism to new prostetics).

If the signal is coming from a misfiring in the brain, or unhealed injury that is interfering with the nerves... it won't work, but you should be able to tell after your first session. If there is absolutely no signs of any sort of improvement after the first (in the next following couple of days), it is not going to work, there is something else going on that is not just a bunch of angry nerves.

So he strongly recommends that anyone going in for such a procedure, does their own research on what exactly it is and what can be expected from it. There is nothing worse than wasting your time and money without knowing what it is that any treatment is supposed to do for you and it failing to meet "your expectations" or wasting the time and money when it really is failing to meet "expectations". Likewise ask the person doing the procedure what "their expectations" are. So long as everyone is meeting somewhere in the middle you're alright.... if anyone is way out in left field it's time to rein them in.



Now my uncle is such a scaredy cat about needles, that I wasn't able to ask him if you couldn't just get some body piercings done after the fact to act as your acupuncture points. I mean I can stop my ears from ringing by tugging on the upper lobe, if I put on an ear cuff I can go all day long without my ears ringing so long as I don't have an inner ear infection. I did get it pierced at one point but had the wrong earrings in (kind of a DIY piercing) so they closed up... but while they were pierced I didn't have any ringing in the ears. But hey, less pain and trendy