The study involved 36 healthy adults who exercised to experience muscle pain in their forearms. Forty-eight hours later the participants either received no treatment, a 15-minute session of acupuncture with penetrating needles or a non-penetrating sham acupuncture.
The group that received acupuncture showed greater skin conductance and ipsilateral skin perfusion increased by 35 percent within five minutes of needle insertion, leading researchers to determine that SNS is activated in response to the acupuncture.
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