9 Acupuncture Myths

Acupuncture and acupressure are the same thing: Acupressure and Acupuncture utilize the same exact pathways and the manipulations in acupuncture and acupressure are similar but different. Your finger can’t manipulate the tissue beneath the skin the same way that a needle can. Could you do similar things with fingers and needles? Sure? Are they the same? Maybe. Are they different? Maybe.

Acupuncture is art or not a science:

Oxford definition of science: (n) the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation, experimentation, and the testing of theories against the evidence obtained.

By this definition acupuncture is, without question, unequivocally, 100%, by definition, a science, and a medical science at that. It is not at all a “pseudoscience” or “quackery” as many would have you believe.