Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - accupuncture for my injuries...

anyone here ever had accupuncture? under my new health plan i can receive accupuncture and i'm definitely considering it. i posted about my accident here in the beginning of august, and while my arm is basically entirely back to normal, there's still a good bit of steady pain in my wrist when bending it. x-rays and an MRI only shows a bruised scaphoid and the doc said nothing could be done which is what lead me to think about accupuncture. any opinions?

May help depending on the type of injury.
I've had really good results from accupuncture with both back and knee pain.
Used to run a lot, and get knee pain so severe that I couldn't walk down steps. Accupuncture worked a miracle there. No amount of ibuprofen, vicodin, or flexeril (muscle relaxant), worked, and within 12 hours of getting four needles in each knee for 20 minutes the pain was *completely* gone, and didn't return for about six months. I got the same thing again, with similar results and I stopped running so hard and haven't had any problems since.
Another time I had a pretty sore back after moving, got eight needles in my back and two in each leg and the pain went away after 30 minutes.

do it, but research and get a reputable accupuncturist, because a bad one can really f you up. You won't feel pain at all, its very cool and works very well. I used get it all the time when I lived in LA because one of our family friends is a famous chinese medicine doc so i get it free.

there's two places in my hood (carroll gardens) that both look very pro so i'm gonna check those out. good to hear positive reports. i've heard amazing things.

just so you know, I had a pretty bad wrist injury myself last winter. i jammed my wrist really hard into the ground as the result of going into an intentional skid just as I was approaching a patch of black ice. I hit the ground super hard. After a month passed and my wrist still hurt pretty bad, I went to the doctor to get an x-ray. He told me not to because he was sure it wasn't broken and that it just needed time to heal. I got a referral to a radiologist anyway, and my x-ray came back clean. I think it was a total of about 3 months or so until my wrist felt like it did before the fall. I started riding on it about 2 months after, but the pain wasn't completely gone. It went away very slowly and gradually. I'm not saying that acupuncture won't help. Just passing on my experience to you so that you don't worry that you're not going to heal. I think these things just take a while sometimes.

I broke my scaphiod a couple of years ago in a motorcycle race.
These are terrible bones to injure due to the lack of blood circulation,
which is why they take a long time to heal. I did try the acupuncture
deal and didnt have any luck personally. Physical therapy and time
really was what got me back to 100%.

thanks for the info guys. i'm probably gonna give it another month or so before going under the needles... the pain feels like it's lower down in my wrist than the scaphoid, and the initial pain that seemed to be from the scaphoid is gone... but i know the scaphoid takes a long time to heal so... i stayed off the bike for about a month but just couldn't take it anymore...

i have had success with accupuncture, but heed the advice already given - it works best on injuries and ailments that it can target. it's not gonna magically sew up ligaments and mend broken bones. but you knew that anyway.

i can recommend a good accupuncturist, as well as a qi gong healer. pm if interested.