Additional Conditions Treated with Acupuncture

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Our goal is to help you feel better. Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine can offer relief for traits and symptoms above and beyond pain relief. We can provide you an environment to safely speak openly and honestly about how you feel physically and emotionally, and our dedication to developing a treatment plan specific to you and your needs.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), diseases, symptoms and conditions for which acupuncture has been proven through controlled clinical trials to be an effective treatment include:

Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy.

Allergic rhinitis

Biliary colic

Depression

Dysentery, acute bacillary

Dysmenorrhea, primary

Epigastralgia, acute

Facial pain

Headache

Hypertension, essential

Hypotension, primary

Induction of labour

Knee pain

Leukopenia

Low back pain

Malposition of fetus, correction of

Morning sickness

Nausea and vomiting

Neck pain

Pain in dentistry

Periarthritis of shoulder

Postoperative pain

Renal colic

Rheumatoid arthritis

Sciatica

Sprain

Stroke

Tennis Elbow

Please visit the WHO website for the complete list: http://apps.who.int/medicinedocs/pdf/s4926e/s4926e.pdf

The National Institutes of Health have also compiled their own data and issued a consensus statement regarding the benefits of acupuncture therapy on numerous conditions and symptoms. These include postoperative and chemotherapy nausea and vomiting, nausea of pregnancy, and postoperative dental pain, addiction, stroke rehabilitation, headache, menstrual cramps, tennis elbow, fibromyalgia (general muscle pain), low back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, and asthma.