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17/03/2020

Make sure you do your research first. Read our top tips to help you make an informed decision on who is treating you.

06/03/2020

Acupuncture is about achieving balance to increase wellbeing ......

Most of us just want to feel ‘well’. Yet achieving this goal may seem a struggle given the busy lives we often lead. What’s more, it is inevitable that we will all, at some point, have to deal with a…Read more ›

29/02/2020

Acupuncture as a Therapeutic Treatment for AnxietyStrength of evidence Research suggests that between 1-30% of the global population suffers from some form of anxiety.1 There are 13 different sub-classifications of anxiety disorders listed in the latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (used by med...

07/02/2020

Mental health presents a significant burden of disease and a large, and increasing, number of patients are self-selecting forms of CAM, including acup…

27/01/2020

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that Medicare will now cover acupuncture for patients with chronic low back pain in part because of the widespread abuse of opioids in America.

25/01/2020

For the past 50 years, acupuncture has been subjected to intensive scientific evaluation in over 8,000 clinical trials and has demonstrated its effectiveness in the treatment of many diseases occurring in modern Western societies.

https://www.evidencebasedacupuncture.org/safety/

25/01/2020

According to the most up to date evidence, acupuncture is an effective treatment for anxiety. In 2017, The Acupuncture Evidence Project, co-authored by Dr John McDonald, PhD and Dr Stephen Janz, was published, providing an up-to-date comparative review of the clinical and scientific evidence for acupuncture.
https://www.evidencebasedacupuncture.org/present-research/acupuncture-anxiety/

This comprehensive document, updating two previous reviews, determined that acupuncture is moderately effective in treating anxiety according to high-level evidence. Their evidence included a 2016 systematic review with over 400 randomised patients that concluded that ‘the effects from acupuncture for treating anxiety have been shown to be significant as compared to conventional treatments.’ The largest of these studies, which included 120 randomized patients, found that acupuncture had a large effect on reducing anxiety and depression compared to conventional treatment involving pharmacological approaches and psychotherapy, with over twice the reduction in symptoms.

A more recent systematic review published in 2018 found that all 13 included studies “reported an anxiety decrease for their treatment group relative to the control groups.” Three of these studies used pharmaceuticals as controls.

25/01/2020

Look at the things acupuncture can do......love my job

23/01/2020

A trial found 68% of cancer patients who suffer with neuropathy saw their symptoms lessen.

22/01/2020

In this month's blog, the British Acupuncture Council's head of research, Mark Bovey, takes an in-depth look at research that came out in December 2019 on the effectiveness of acupuncture for the treatment of chemotherapy induced peripheral neuropathy On 28 December 2019 The Christie NHS Tru...