The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
it does work, but sometimes it can exacerbate pain and sometimes it can relieve pain and it all does that through very discrete pathways for which we can really say, "This neuron connects to that neuron connects to the adrenals," and we can tie this all back to dopamine because in the end it's the chemicals and neural circuits that are giving rise to these perceptions, or these experiences, rather, of things that we call pain, love, et cetera.
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And what they found is that stimulation of the legs of the hind limbs, as it's called an animals, and the legs in humans caused a circuit, a neural circuit to be activated that goes from the legs up to an area of the base of the brain called the DMV not the DMH, which I mentioned earlier, but the DMV like you go to the DMV, which is a miserable experience for most people, forgive me, DMV employees, but let's be honest most people don't enjoy going to the DMV as patrons, but we have to so we go. The DMV and low intensity stimulation, this electroacupuncture of the hind limbs activated the DMV and activated the adrenal glands, which sit at top of your kidneys and cause the release of what are called catecholamines. And those were strongly anti-inflammatory.
In other words, electroacupuncture of the legs and feet can, if done correctly, be anti-inflammatory and reduce symptoms of pain. And can we think accelerate wound healing because activations of these catecholaminergic pathways can accelerate wound healing as well.