"I still can't quite believe it, but I'm an absolute convert to the benefits of acupuncture..."

Times Online, February 24, 2007, David Mattin.
It works for me: acupuncture

One woman’s life had been crippled by osteoarthritis until she found relief in Chinese medicine

Christmas 2005 wasn’t much fun for 73-year-old Maureen Vine. She had long been a sufferer from chronic osteoarthritis in her knees, hips and back and she was now afflicted by an arthritic right ankle, which left her in pain and limping. “My youngest grandchild was 4 years old and he couldn’t understand why I wouldn’t play with him on the floor on Christmas Day,” Vine recalls. “It was just too painful. The terrible pain in my ankle spread to the sole of my foot, and I could hardly walk.”

Vine had suffered from osteoarthritis - in which wear and tear causes joint stiffness and pain - in the back, hips, and knees for 30 years, and had tried occasional physiotherapy, which had brought a little relief. But a stomach condition meant that she had to avoid antiinflammatory medication or strong painkillers. In November 2005 her right ankle began showing signs that it, too, had become arthritic and by the new year, Vine was at her GP in Hackney, East London.

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Acupuncture relieves headaches and migraines

Migraine Action - Acupuncture in the news

Posted 28/01/09

New research into the benefits of acupuncture has been featured in many newspaper articles, on GMTV and national TV news programmes over the past couple of days.

A review of 33 trials, involving nearly 7,000 people, showed that patients who underwent the alternative therapy did experience relief from headaches and migraines

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Acupuncture is a 'valuable treatment' for people who suffer from headaches and migraines.

Acupuncture for headache - a review, published by The Prince’s Foundation for Integrated Health, 1/3/09.

Dr Adrian White is a Clinical Research Fellow at Peninsula Medical School. In this article, he summarises the findings of recent research on acupuncture for different types of headaches and migraines.

Headaches are common - in fact, the most common symptom experienced by the human race. There are various causes of headache, and of course careful conventional diagnosis is necessary in case the headache arises from some dangerous disorder - in which case acupuncture is not appropriate.

Most headaches fall into two general categories - tension type headache and migraine. These problems can persist for years. The two types of headache are clearly different, and most research investigates one or other type. In individual patients, however, it may be difficult to decide which type they have, and indeed some people may have both types together.

Acupuncture is widely used as a prevention for both types of headache, and generally involves a course of treatment sometimes with continuing top up appointments.

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Acupuncture can help to raise success rate of IVF

Acupuncture ‘helps women have babies’ Chinese treatment raises success rate of IVF
Denis Campbell, Health Correspondent The Observer, Sunday 21 September 2008

Women undergoing fertility treatment are far more likely to successfully give birth if they also have acupuncture, a major scientific study has concluded.

The research found that women suffering with fertility problems who underwent the ancient Chinese treatment increased their chance of having a baby from one in five to one in three. Acupuncture involves inserting extremely fine needles into specific points on the body, along qi energy channels, to stimulate the body’s own healing system.

The finding will offer hope to the 33,000 women a year who undertake IVF treatment, many of whom are willing to make any change to their lifestyle or health routine that might increase their chances of becoming a mother.

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