Pain is a condition synonymous with a myriad of problematic medical conditions. Side-effects of standard pain medications limit their use. Nonpharmacologic pain relief techniques such as auriculotherapy play an important role in pain management. Clinical studies have show that auriculotherapy treatments alleviated pain with an 80% - 90% success rate. Pain conditions successfully treated by auriculotherapy include musculoskeletal pain, nerve pain, headache pain, and much more. Virtually every area of the body can be successfully treated for pain using the Stem Flex. Most chronic conditions may be treated one or two times per week. With very serious pain conditions auriculotherapy may be applied daily for approximately one week to ten days. Often pain is permately relieved with simply one treatment.