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Correspondence to Author: Lu Yang MD^2*, Lei Sun MD¹,Wei Liu MD², Jike Lu MD,PHD^1*. 

Departments of Orthopaedics1 and Anesthesiology 2, Beijing United Family Hospital, No 2 Jiangtai Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100015, China

DOI: 10.52338/tjocm.2025.4553

Abstract:

Cheek acupuncture therapy is a micro needling technique that involves stimulating specific points on the cheek to treat pain. It’s based on three major theoretical systems: holography, Da San Jiao and physical/mental integration. Microneedles are inserted into specific acupoints on the cheek. In this case the cheek acupuncture provided immediate pain relief posttraumatic injuries of the lumbar spine and bilateral wrists and achieved clinical remission after only one time’s cheek acupuncture. Follow up at 3, 12 and 24 months after injuries, her headaches were completely relieved. Additionally, cheek acupuncture is nearly painless compared to classical acupuncture, which often cause sensations of soreness, numbness, swelling, and pain at the site of needling. Thus, cheek acupuncture represents an efficient approach for relieving neuropathic pain, and demonstrated its remarkable efficacy in relieving headaches resulting from posttraumatic pain syndrome, and provides a highly accepted and satisfactory therapy for postoperative or post injury pain, which is worthy of clinical promotion.

Keywords: acute pain, headache, cheek acupuncture, pain management.

Citation:

Dr. Jike Lu, Cheek Acupuncture For Post Traumatic Headaches – A Case Report. The Journal of Clinical Medicine 2025.