People turn to acupuncture for a wide range of conditions, often those with which we have become resigned to living with! Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) address the root cause of why the “disease” is occurring in the body. So mostly, there is a whole body approach to treatment and you may find that other symptoms, other than the main complaint, improve as well.
Conditions that are treated regularly include the following, although this by no means an exhaustive list:
Musculoskeletal/pain issues
- Sciatica
- Frozen shoulder
- Back pain
- Neck pain
- Headaches/migraine
- Arthritic (knee) pain
- TMJ/jaw pain
- Fibromyalgia
Women’s Health and Fertility
- Irregular/painful/light/heavy periods
- PMS
- Endometriosis
- PCOS
- Support for natural conception
- Support for IVF
- Morning sickness
- Breech baby
- Menopausal symptoms – hot flushes, anxiety, tiredness
Digestive/gastrointestinal issues
- IBS
- Indigestion/reflux
- Constipation/diarrhoea
- Bloating/gas
Wellbeing
- Insomnia, Stress/anxiety, Fatigue, Low mood
Other
- Dizziness
- Bells’ Palsy
- Trigeminal neuralgia
The British Acupuncture Council factsheets (below) contain more information about these and other conditions:
BRITISH ACUPUNCTURE COUNCIL FACTSHEETS
- Acne
- Allergic RhinitisAnxiety
- Backpain
- Bell’s Palsy
- Cancer Care
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Childbirth
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Chronic Pain
- Colds and Flu
- COPD
- Cystitis
- Dementia
- Dentistry
- Depression
- Diabetes – Type 2
- Dysmennorrhoea (painful periods)
- Eczema and Psoriasis
- Endometriosis
- Facial Pain
- Fibromyalgia
- Frozen Shoulder
- Gastrointestinal Pain
- Gout
- Headache
- Herpes
- Hypertension
- IBS
- Infertility and ART/IVF
- Infertility – Female
- Infertility – Male
- Insomnia
- Kidney Stones
- Menopausal Symptoms
- Migraines
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Nausea and Vomiting
- Neuropathic Pain
- Palliative Care
- Parkinson’s Disease
- PCOS
- Post-operative Pain
- Premenstrual symptoms
- Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
- Puerperium
- Raynaud’s
- Sciatica
- Sinusitis
- Sports Injuries
- Stress
- Stroke
- Substance Abuse
- Tennis elbow
- Thyroid Disease
- Tinnitus
- Urinary Incontinence
- Vertigo