Acupuncture
East London Acupuncture
Acupuncture Treatments in Stratford E20, East London
Our team provide a holistic approach to healthcare offering traditional eastern and modern medical services. Acupuncture is a state-of-art natural therapy rooted in Chinese medical practices, many people turn to this treatment as a drug-free alternative to improved health and wellbeing.
What is acupuncture?
Acupuncture involves the insertion of very thin needles through the patient’s skin at specific points on the body – the needles are inserted to various depths to stimulate the nervous system, muscles and connective tissues and can encourage pain relief and promote healing and well-being.
What are the benefits of acupuncture?
A 2003 report by the World Health Organisation found 28 conditions for which there is good evidence of Acupuncture’s efficiency. The report also found evidence that had shown many other conditions for which Acupuncture may be able to help. The 28 Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which acupuncture has been proved – through controlled trials—to be an effective treatment are:
- Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy
- Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)
- Biliary colic
- Depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke)
- Dysentery, acute bacillary
- Dysmenorrhoea, primary
- Epigastralgia, acute (in peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis, and gastrospasm)
- Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)
- 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 (including dental pain and temporomandibular dysfunction)
- Periarthritis of shoulder
- Postoperative pain
- Renal colic
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sciatica
- Sprain
- Stroke
- Tennis elbow