An article in Practice Business reports that clinicians across the UK are being urged by the British Acupuncture Council, to consider referring patients for acupuncture treatment. As funding and workforce shortages put increasing pressure on the NHS, this is a viable option and could help the NHS. Head of research at the British Acupuncture Council,… Continue reading GPs urged to prescribe acupuncture
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Acupuncture & Managing Pain
Scientists from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in New York studied 29 separate investigations involving 18,000 patients and they found evidence to support the use of acupuncture for the treatment of pain. One theory suggests that acupuncture works by releasing the bodies own natural pain killers such as adenosine. Charlotte Green practices acupuncture in Preston, and her clinic is… Continue reading Acupuncture & Managing Pain