Acupuncture treatments for chronic pain resets your body on a cellular level. This allows your system to return to their natural balance and frees you from pain in the future. In May 2018, a team of researchers from the Acupuncture Trialists Collaboration published an updated study that concluded acupuncture relieved people’s pain and improved their mobility when compared with sham acupuncture and not receiving any acupuncture. The researchers also showed the effects persisted for at least 12 months after the acupuncture treatments ended. This study adds to the growing body of literature that suggests acupuncture can be a viable treatment for chronic pain, and the findings cannot be explained away by the placebo effect since they did not observe significant changes in the group that received sham acupuncture.