Research & Useful Links

If you want to know more about acupuncture or a particular condition please click on the appropriate text below and it will link through to the British Acupuncture Council’s latest research into the condition.

The list below is not an exhaustive list of ailments that have shown improvement when treated with acupuncture so if you wish to discuss your own symptoms or condition please feel free to contact Abbey Acupuncture by telephone or email and we would be more than happy to discuss it with you.

The Abbey Acupuncture Facebook page and our Twitter account are updated regularly with various articles of interest concerning acupuncture and lifestyle. Please join us by clicking on the images on the top right hand side of the page.

The links below offer you the opportunity to read more about acupuncture and general health and wellbeing. Acupuncture treatment forms just one important part of improving your health however lifestyle is equally crucial. Your diet, activity levels, emotional state and even your environment all have a very real impact on you as a person.

Ensuring you eat a healthy balanced diet, exercise in a way that suits you and understand the stresses and strains of your life and how these impact you will allow you to minimise any negative effects on you as an individual.

• www.acupuncture.org.uk
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/0/22019289
• http://www.helpguide.org/life/healthy_eating_diet.htm
• NHS - Healthy living for everyone
• NHS - Easy exercises

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence also known as NICE has recently published its guidelines to clinicians for dealing with Tension Headaches and Migraine.

In a situation were medication has failed to help an individual sufferer NICE has suggested that a course of 10 acupuncture treatments over a period of 5 to 8 weeks should be considered. This advice is applicable for both Tension Headaches and Migraine

Source: NICE CG150 Headaches: NICE Guidelines (Tension Headaches p18 Section 1.3.9 & Migraine p19 Section 1.3.18)

This document can be accessed by clicking on the link below:

NICE Guidance on Headaches & Migraine (CG150)     

The Mail Online - What's the Point of Acupuncture?

The link above will take you to a recent article published by the Mail Online. It is good to see a well balanced article on the subject of acupuncture. Within the article both acupuncturists and medical professionals give their views on what conditions and ailments they believe acupuncture works for, what they believe it doesn't work for and what they believe is still to be proved.

Importantly people who suffer from chronic pain, headaches, migraine and nausea and have received acupuncture treatment believe that it does work and it has helped them with their symptoms.