IVF Acupuncture Bath

Brooke holds regular acupuncture clinics in both Bath and Bradford on Avon.
Cost: £40. Session: 45 - 60 mins. These clinics are held at:

Women who undergo IVF increase their chances of pregnancy if they are treated with acupuncture, a new analysis suggests.

The benefits may be huge :

- a 65 per cent increase in the chance of becoming pregnant
- a 91 % increase in the number of live births.
- an 87 % increase in continuing the pregnancy

The seven trials were carried out in four western countries involved 1366 women.

'Course of acupuncture may raise the success of IVF treatment by 65%'

(Headline from Times On Line, Feb 8, 2008)

This is great news for women having assisted fertility treatment such as IVF, ICSI, IUI, Egg or Sperm donation.

In China there exists huge databases of reserach into the benefits of acupuncture. Unfortunately this remains largely inaccessible and may not conform to Western medical requiremtns. However, as new research begins to provide quantifiable evidence of traditional acupuncture's efficacy and cost-effectiveness, the body of evidence availble internationally is growing rapidly.