Many Westerners are turning to needles as an alternative way of relieving muscle pain. While Western medicine traditionally promotes taking drugs and undergoing surgery, different styles of acupuncture aim directly at parts of the body that cause the pain. Impact interviews a karate master and a tennis player to see how acupuncture has helped them.
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