You are making a huge assumption that other options even exist for the sort of lower back pain I experience (without so much as checking my medical history). As I indicated in my post I have seen a general practicioner and a specialist for my lower back and the relief was only temporary. I was prescribed a laundry list of muscle relaxers and pain killers. I have no desire to be dependant on either and who can blame me? The medical establishment/Big Pharma has done much to hurt its credibility with the over prescription of these sort of drugs. How many millions people like myself in this country have become dependant on narcotics and died as a result?
Accupuncture may only provide temporary relief for my back pain but at least I won’t end up a dead junkie in an alley with some bunk drugs in my system.