Acupuncture therapy works by inserting very thin needles on the skin to hit the acupuncture points in the body to restore the balance between the yin and yang of a person’s life force (called “Qi” but read as “chi”). 

However, in today’s practice, acupuncture is just a therapy to stimulate the sensory nerves under the skin using very thin needles. The stimulation of the sensory nerves affects the pain processing of the nervous system and the muscles. This also improves blood flow to the different parts of the body.