Acupuncture is a complementary medicine with a good research base.
Acupuncture is a safe and effective treatment. Most clinical research is concentrated on chronic pain. This has resulted in a large, systematic review of over 20,000 patients that demonstrates that acupuncture Is effective and the results are not purely due to the placebo effect.
Acupuncture is used to help a wide range of conditions, from relieving osteoarthritis pain to nausea and vomiting, tension headaches and dental pain.
Acupuncture also has many benefits to help maintain wellbeing and prevent illness.
To find out more about Acupuncture clinical research and Acupuncture in the news, follow these links to the British Acupuncture Council website:
Fact sheets on research on specific conditions [click to read more]
These fact sheets are produced to provide accurate and unbiased general information for a variety of conditions.
They provide summaries of research and how acupuncture may be beneficial.
My Initial training and Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
In my initial degree (Bsc hons) in Acupuncture, I learnt about lots of health complaints including:
- Asthma,
- Coughs and Colds,
- Pain (including joint pain, back pain and sciatica),
- Headache and Migraine,
- Dizziness,
- Gastro-Intesinal issues,
- Blood pressure,
- Stroke,
- Urination,
- Skin problems,
- Sleep,
- Addictions,
- Fibromyalgia and M.E. / C.F.S.,
- Menstrual problems,
- Mental Health
- and more…
Since then I have done CPD in areas such as:
- Mental and Emotional Health and Recovery,
- Emotional Trauma focused care and PTSD,
- 5 Element Acupuncture,
- Parkinsons disease,
- Sleep and insomnia,
- Autoimmune conditions,
- Cardiovascular conditions,
- Electroacupuncture,
- Gua sha ,
- Neuromuscular taping (this is also known as acupressure taping and kinesiology taping),
- Food / dietary therapy,
- Gut Health,
- Menopause,
- Maintaining Wellbeing and Preventing Illness,
- Applied Channel Theory / Dr Wang Ju Yi,
- Professor Tung’s style of acupuncture,
- Treating elder patients,
- Ear / Auricular acupuncture including NADA and Battlefield (BFA) protocols,
- Acid indigestion and reflux,
- Neurodiversity,
- etc…
I qualified as an acupuncturist in 2011 and I’ve treated hundreds patients with these health complaints and many more!
Your complaint may not be listed here, but please Contact me to discuss how I can help your problem
I have also completed First Aid at work certification
I have also taken part in acupuncture research:
“Dee Holbourne took part in a large nationwide study that investigated how non-specific effects (e.g. the therapeutic relationship, patient and practitioner beliefs and attitudes towards the treatment, the clinic environment, and characteristics of the treatment) influence patients’ recovery/management of their low back pain. Dee was a participating practitioner, who introduced the study to eligible patients and gave them patient invitation packs. Dee also completed treatment follow up questionnaires and liaised with the University of Southampton for the duration of the study. Support from practitioners like Dee was vital for the success of the study. The research team at the University of Southampton are very grateful for practitioners like Dee who support research that is important to the improvement of future low back pain treatments.”
When I am involved in a study, participation of patients is (of course) voluntary.