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Acupuncture is most heavily practiced in China [94] and is popular in [94] the US, [17] Australia, [143] and Europe. [144] In Switzerland, acupuncture has become the most frequently used alternative medicine since 2004. [145] In the United Kingdom, a total of 4 million acupuncture treatments were administered in 2009. [146]
The principal body for professional standards in traditional/lay acupuncture is the British Acupuncture Council, [24] The British Medical Acupuncture Society [25] an inter-disciplinary professional body for regulated health professional using acupuncture as a modality. The Acupuncture Association of Chartered Physiotherapists.
J. R. Worsley (14 September 1923 – 2 June 2003) was a British acupuncturist who is credited with European five element acupuncture also known as 'classical acupuncture'. '. The origins of Chinese Wuxing medicines have a Taoist, Chinese folk religious background distinguish it from the more widely known Confucian style of modernised traditional Chinese medi
The German acupuncture trials (German: GERAC-Studien [1]) were a series of nationwide acupuncture trials set up in 2001 and published in 2006 on behalf of several German statutory health insurance companies because of a dispute as to the usefulness of acupuncture. [2]
The British Acupuncture Association and Register was founded in 1961 with the other four groups being founded between 1984 and 1986. The total membership number at the BAcC's inception in 1995 was approximately 1500 growing to 1757 by 1996,the first year of its existence.
Recent evidence suggests that acupuncture can help relieve the pain caused by sciatica, a common condition in which the sciatic nerve becomes compressed. Acupuncture can help relieve sciatica pain ...
For many, the practice of acupuncture has been a safe and reliable space for releasing physical or mental blocks and ailments. Two wellness experts weigh in on how to get the stress-reducing ...
The Acupuncture Treatment of Internal Disease: An Introduction to the Use of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture in the Treatment of Some Common Internal Diseases. Thorsons Publishers 1985. ISBN 978-0-7225-1103-9. Alternative Therapies: A Guide to Complementary Medicine for the Health Professional. Heinemann, 1985. ISBN 978-0-433-19270-1.