Could anyone tell me if acupuncture could help ALS patients, especially with bulblar type? Some chinese traditional medicine methods suggest acupuncture as a form of therapy. Does anybody has had such treatment?
Yannis

I think we have found just regular massage more beneficial than accupunture. But this was the type of accupunture that involves electrical stimulation (maybe not called accupunture then); in which case, based on the 'overuse hypothesis' of ALS (or just the fact that overuse leads to fatigue), this stimulation-accupunture would seemingly not be the best idea. By the way, I'm refering to limb-onset ALS.

Jim, thank you for your reply and useful information. My wife is diagnosed with ALS for 2 years now, on a rather steady condition up to a couple of months ago when symptoms seem to become more acute (speech and swallowing) and thus we think of trying acupuncture.The article is very useful. By the way , we are trying the chinese herbs for 3 weeks now.no evident results yet.Good luck with your wife.

Humberto, thank you for replying. I just checked your website..Amazing! congratulations for all that effort you put to give to us all useful information. I will have to contact you later for some more info, if you do not mind.
thanks again
Yannis