For anyone wanting to add acupuncture to a 2024 health regimen, the CU Anschutz Health and Wellness Center now offers the ancient Chinese healing practice. Open to both members and non-members, sessions involve inserting very thin needles into the skin at strategic points on a person’s body and can target everything from pain relief to infertility.
Basically, acupuncture is a tool that allows the body to do what it needs to do to heal, said Dee Watts, a licensed acupuncturist who leads the acupuncture program for the center. Below, Watts explains other top acupuncture benefits.