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Your first treatment taken from the British acupuncture site There is no ‘one size fits all’ acupuncture treatment because no two people are identical. Traditional acupuncture is an holistic healthcare system that treats the whole person, not just your symptoms. Consultation During the initial consultation a traditional acupuncturist will take a complete medical history in [...]

History of acupuncture taken from the British Acupuncture site Traditional acupuncture is a branch of traditional Chinese medicine – a tried and tested healthcare system that has been practiced for thousands of years in China and the Far East. It has been developed, tested, researched and refined over centuries to give us a complex and [...]

This article is from Acupuncture provides pain relief and improves function for people with osteoarthritis of the knee and serves as an effective complement to standard care. This landmark study was funded by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) and the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), both [...]

Modern research into alternative medicine is difficult as it has to follow the double blind procedure used in testing new pharmaceutical drugs. This is one of the major challenges in acupuncture research is in the design of an appropriateness of the “placebo” or “control group”. In trials of new drugs double blind testing is the [...]

From The British Acupuncture Council Data from the British Acupuncture Council (BAcC) has revealed that more than a quarter (27.3%) of people seeking treatment from one of its 3,000 members, are men. While they recognize the benefits of acupuncture for a range of conditions, from musculo-skeletal and digestive problems, to headaches and emotional and addiction [...]

From the British Acupuncture Council Brain scanning techniques were used to demonstrate acupuncture’s impact is more than just a placebo by researchers at the University of Southampton and UCL. The results showed that real acupuncture elicits a demonstrable physiological response in the brain distinctly different from that occurring when the patient has an expectation or [...]

From The British Acupuncture Council Over a lifetime, only 1% of the UK population escape headaches altogether. Over a year, it is estimated that 90% of the population get at least 1 headache. About 16-17% of the population get a migraine headache sometime in their life – that means over a billion people worldwide at [...]

From The British Acupuncture Council Stress may be experienced as a result of exposure to a wide range of demands and if left unchecked it can have an enormous impact on your health. According to the Government’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE), a total of 12.8 million working days were lost to stress, depression and [...]

From the British Acupuncture Council More than 2.2 million people in Britain suffer from type 2 diabetes*, a chronic progressive disease which usually affects the over 40s. The number of people diagnosed with the disease has increased dramatically in recent years and this has been linked to the increase in sedentary lifestyles and obesity. Caught [...]

From the British Acupuncture Council Traditional acupuncture is an holistic health care system that regards pain and illness, whether physical or mental, to be a sign that the body is out of balance. Because traditional acupuncture considers every bodily function to be connected and interdependent, it recognizes the role emotions play in illness and disease. [...]