Acupuncture is an eastern treatment that has been used for centuries. Many people feel that it helps them relieve pain or rid themselves of illness. In North America, acupuncture is considered a complementary treatment that can be used in conjunction with our traditional western medicine.
Whether acupuncture is useless is impossible to say ahead of time. Several studies have been done assessing the effectiveness of acupuncture and while some results are only lukewarm, others find that acupuncture not only helps relieve pain, but decreases the need for more invasive treatments from conventional treatments.