1.What is floating needle therapy? Floating needle therapy is a new type of acupuncture and physical therapy method developed on the basis of ancient “floating acupuncture” and modern wrist and ankle acupuncture, mainly using disposable floating needle apparatus (floating needle for short) as the treatment tool, based on the local disease as the reference, into the pain around the disease (rather than in the local pain), the needle body buried in the superficial fascia (mainly subcutaneous loose (mainly subcutaneous loose connective tissue) layer for treatment. 2.What kind of diseases are treated by floating needle therapy? Floating needle therapy has a history of more than 10 years since its introduction, and a large number of practices have shown that floating needles have a very good effect on pain, especially in the most common clinical pain area of neck, shoulder, lumbar and leg pain caused by soft tissue injury, and can often needle into the pain or pain reduction. In addition, it is also useful for neuralgia, post-operative pain, visceral pain, and pain in the advanced stages of cancer. 3.What are the characteristics of floating needle therapy compared to traditional acupuncture? Firstly, it is easy and quick to operate, usually less than one minute for one part of the floating needle operation. Secondly, there is almost no needle sensation during needle operation, so patients do not feel any pain and rarely experience dizziness and other reactions to needling. Third, the effect is rapid, most patients have the feeling of needle into the pain or needle into the pain is reduced. Fourth, the needle stays in the body for a long time, usually 24-48 hours, overcoming the shortcomings of the needling effect is not long-lasting. 4. Is it dangerous to leave the floating needles in the body for such a long time? Will it cause complications such as infection, needle breakage, and piercing of normal human tissue? Floating needles are very safe and generally do not cause infections. Floating needles are buried in the subcutaneous loose connective tissue layer for treatment, which is also the most active part of the body’s immune system, plus the routine sterilization before surgery, there is no risk of infection. In addition, because the floating needle site is very shallow, there is no risk of needle breakage, and it is even less likely to pierce the internal organs of the human body and large vascular nerves. 5.Does the floating needle buried under the skin affect the normal activities of the body? Of course, avoiding strenuous exercise after the needle is buried is also an important factor to ensure the efficacy and safety of floating needles. 6.Does the floating needle have side effects? It should be said, so far more than ten years of clinical practice, has not found floating needles produce side effects reported, more because it does not need to cooperate with any drugs, so it is a “green natural” therapy, can be used with confidence. 7.How is the course of treatment of various diseases with floating needles? Can it be cured? First of all, it is clear that chronic pain itself is one of the three major persistent diseases that plague human beings, and it is unrealistic to expect that any kind of treatment can easily cure neck, shoulder, back and leg pain under the current level of human science. However, floating has very good short-term and long-term efficacy for many pains. Generally speaking, acute pain is more effective with 1-2 treatments, while chronic pain requires 5 or even longer treatments, and the poor effect is also related to improper rest.