• Acupuncture offers a safe alternative without the need for chemical intervention
  • Acupuncture is a profession in it's own right, currently self regulated through the British Acupuncture Council and The British Medical Acupuncture Society
  • Acupuncuture is safe when carried out by a fully qualifed practitioner who is registered with a professional regulatory body
  • Acupuncture is a holistic healing system that has been around for several thousand years, it is a sophisticated system of healing, it's complexity and foundation in ancient tradition has created a form of healing that can affect the patient on several levels i.e. the mind, body and spirit
  • It takes three and a half years (3,600 hours) of training to degree standard to become a Traditional Acupuncturist placing the profession on a par with other more widely accepted professions such as physiotherapists, chiropractors and osteopaths.  
  • Medical professionals who also offer acupuncture may not have trained to the same level, for example some may have trained for approximately 80 hours and as a result can only apply acupuncture to supplement their main field. Medical acupuncture is generally used for a narrower field of complaints addressing the symptoms rather than the cause (for example pain but not necessarily the reasons behind it)