30 Oct The Secret: These Aren’t Your Standard Medical Needles
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When you get a flu shot or have blood drawn at a doctor’s office, the nurse uses a hypodermic needle. These needles are relatively thick, completely hollow, and explicitly designed to cut through skin and tissue to transfer fluids.
Acupuncture needles look and act nothing like that:
- Hair-Thin and Flexible: Acupuncture filiform needles are solid, flexible, and roughly the width of a single strand of human hair. You could easily fit nearly forty acupuncture needles inside the tip of a standard hypodermic syringe.
- Designed to Glide: Because they are solid and incredibly fine, they don’t slice your tissue. Instead, they gently slide between cellular structures, minimizing any sharp nerve response on the surface of your skin. Maplebrook Acupuncture | Online Scheduling