Acupuncture Approach To Treating Retinitis Pigmentosa

Imagine yourself going completely blind by the time you cross the age of sixty. Since 1 in 4000 people do go blind by the time they reach 60 you just might be one of the unluckiest people on earth. Retinitis Pigmentosa is the medical term of a special eye abnormality that tends to make people go completely blind due to the degeneration of their retina. Retinitis Pigmentosa or RP, for short, is a dreadful disease that unfortunately isn’t fully curable if you opt for the conventional medicinal approach that most of the world uses. Fortunately, the Chinese medicine technique known as acupuncture has a remedy to this rare eye problem.

Retinitis Pigmentosa acupuncture treatment may seem to be the only hope for a lot, if not all, of RP sufferers. A recent study showed that use of acupuncture needle in the essential stage boosts the blood flow to the critical artery known as the supratrochlear artery. This has had a positive effect that has stopped the progression of the disease. These results provide hope for those stricken with RP. The procedure used in this study is known as Micro Acupuncture for Retinitis and has actually been used by a few highly skilled acupuncturists who studied, tried the procedure and have honed their skills over the years. Nowadays, we hear about eye surgeons studying and training to be able to perform Micro Acupuncture For Retinitis in order to help prevent their patients from losing their eyesight.