An Acupuncture Experience! I had got better over the weekend since the Friday 'sneezing tragedy'. However, I was still suffering a pinch pain around my lower back and any movement could accidently stretch the injured part and made me go ‘ouch!’ Yesterday I went to the nearest Chinese medicine clinic and had a wonderful acupuncture treatment. The doctor let me lie face down on the bed and placed a few needles on some certain points of my back. I don't remember how many needles he applied on me because he was so skillful and fast that I didn't feel much when needles inserted. After all needles have been placed, he connected the needles to an electrical device via small cables. The device can provide a pulsating electrical current to the needles to stimulate the acupuncture points. The doctor also turned on an infrared heat lamp above me to heat my back. After all of these setup, he left the treatment room and let me enjoy the treatment alone for half hour. Once the time's up, a nurse came in with a trolley of ball-shaped glass cups. I didn't expect that there would be a fire cupping service included as well. Cool! She removed my acupuncture needles and applied eight cups on the stiff muscles. I couldn't see how she did it, but she did very well - the cups sealed firmly but not extremely painful. She is also able to move a cup across the skin without air leak. Now the eight red round cupping marks still remain on my back. This was a very impressive experience.