What is Acupuncture?

Acupuncture is a complementary therapy that involves the insertion and manipulation of specialist fine needles into a variety of relevant points throughout the body to provide pain relief and promote healing. Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that many of the bodies problems arise as a result of too little or too much activity within the bodies meridians (energy fields) and that through adopting a holistic approach as to the underlying cause of these problems, that specific individualised acupuncture treatment can get things moving as they should. The Western philosophy believes that it is the mechanism of inserting the needles that encourages the body to release its own pain relieving ability and hence accelerates healing.

Acupuncture can be used as a treatment in its own right, or can be used in combination with other Physiotherapy techniques to encourage the early return of movement & function.

Your Physiotherapist will provide you with a full initial assessment and will discuss your treatment options with you.