Your body has spent weeks, months, or years building a pattern of tension and pain. That pattern is familiar to your nervous system and your tissue, even though it's uncomfortable. So after treatment, your body wants to go back to what it knows. The pain creeps back in.

This is the part most patients were never told, and it's the reason so many people quit acupuncture after one or two sessions thinking it failed them. It didn't fail. You just weren't told that one treatment was never going to be the whole story.