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If you google it comes up. One study reports 60-80% improvement rate. I got mine fixed on one session. I’m no good at posting links on this ancient phone sorry!
There are many things that acupuncture can help resolve. The problem is that because it’s eastern medicine our western gps are not trained in it.
Pharma companies do not make any money out of it as there are no profitable drugs to be sold, so bigger trials are not done by them. So who’s going to pay for the trials. Nobody has the resources. Hence not many trials done.
They use acupuncture in Scotland on the nhs for varicose veins. You get half a dozen treatments. I only know that because a relative went. She got some benefit but the person delivering it would be a doctor who has had an introductory course. Not an acupuncturist who works with it day in day out and has a wide breadth of knowledge and experience.
So the benefits people get from it will be proportionate to the knowledge of the therapist. So it could actually give the treatment a bad name and appear less beneficial than other pharma treatments!
It’s all to do with nhs funding and lack of research and fear of trying other solutions when pharma ones have been helpful.
I’m china they do open heart surgery with no anaesthetic. Just acupuncture needles. Granted they have an electrical current through them. But the patient is totally awake. That’s how powerful acupuncture can be when used properly by an experienced therapist. Yet over here it’s considered ‘woo’. Despite it being proved in many studies to not be woo.
I find it all very frustrating as I’ve had lots of benefit from it for over a decade without taking hormones or pills that give side effects that the nhs would have prescribed. I just wish it was on the nhs. It’s £50-£60 where I am. There is only one professional body who also provides insurance. I just wish it would speak to the nhs and become a registered therapy or whatever has to be done in order that more people can benefit from it’s wonders.