Acupuncture in East London & Brighton with Becky Minton BSc(Hons) LicAc MBAcC

Acupuncture Research and Studies

Acupuncture has a growing base of research and evidence showing effective responses to treatments. Please take a look at some research papers I have brought together for you to read. Each piece of research is a link and will take you through to another website. If you’d like to know how I can help you with acupuncture treatment, please be in touch

Acupuncture and Anxiety

• Effects from acupuncture in treating anxiety: integrative review

• Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) Treated with Five Element Acupuncture: A Case Report

• The effect of complementary medicines and therapies on maternal anxiety and depression in pregnancy: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Acupuncture and Insomnia

• Acupuncture using pattern-identification for the treatment of insomnia disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

• The efficacy of acupuncture in decreasing The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index scores of depressive patients with insomnia

• Acupuncture, Moxibustion, and Combination Therapies for Insomnia

• Acupuncture for Treatment of Persistent Disturbed Sleep: A Randomized Clinical Trial in Veterans With Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and

• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Acupuncture and IVF

• Effects of acupuncture during in vitro fertilization or intracytoplasmic sperm injection

• Effects of acupuncture on ovarian blood supply and pregnancy outcomes in patients receiving assisted reproduction

• The Effect of Acupuncture on Psychosocial Outcomes for Women Experiencing Infertility

• The Effect of Complementary and Alternative Medicine on Subfertile Women with In Vitro Fertilization

• Effects of Acupuncture on Symptoms of Anxiety in Women Undergoing In Vitro Fertilization

Acupuncture and Menopause

• Acupuncture Improves Peri-menopausal Insomnia: A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Acupuncture in Menopause (AIM) study: a pragmatic, randomized controlled trial

• A randomized controlled pilot study of acupuncture for postmenopausal hot flashes: effect on nocturnal hot flashes and sleep quality

• Efficacy of a standardised acupuncture approach for women with bothersome menopausal symptoms: a pragmatic randomised study in primary care (the ACOM study)

Acupuncture and Migraine

• Systematic Review: Acupuncture vs Standard Pharmacological Therapy for Migraine Prevention

• Manual acupuncture versus sham acupuncture and usual care for prophylaxis of episodic migraine without aura: multicentre, randomised clinical trial

• Acupuncture for preventing migraine attacks

Acupuncture and Pain

• Acupuncture for low back pain

• Effectiveness of Acupuncture on Pain, Physical Function and Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Systematic Review of Quantitative Evidence

• Acupuncture therapy for fibromyalgia: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Acupuncture and Pregnancy

• Effect of acupuncture on pregnancy-related low back pain and pelvic pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis

• Birth preparation acupuncture for normalising birth: An analysis of NHS service routine data and proof of concept

• Findings and Methodological Quality of Systematic Reviews Focusing on Acupuncture for Pregnancy-Related Acute Conditions

• Traditional Chinese acupuncture and postpartum depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Acupuncture and Prostatitis

• Non-pharmacological interventions for treating chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome: a Cochrane systematic review

• Is Acupuncture Another Good Choice for Physicians in the Treatment of Chronic Prostatitis/Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome? Review of the Latest Literature

• Long-term effects of acupuncture for chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome: systematic review and single-arm meta-analyses

Acupuncture and PTSD

• Integrative Body-Mind-Spirit (I-BMS) Interventions for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): A Review of the Outcome Literature

• Randomized Effectiveness Trial of a Brief Course of Acupuncture for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• An Observational Study on Acupuncture for Earthquake-Related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: The Experience of the Lombard Association of Medical Acupuncturists/Acupuncture in the World, in Amatrice, Central Italy

Acupuncture and Stress

• Effectiveness of Acupuncture Therapy on Stress in a Large Urban College Population

• Acupuncture Effects on the Stress Level in Administrative Workers

Acupuncture and Vulvodynia 

• Acupuncture Augmentation of Lidocaine for Provoked, Localized Vulvodynia: A Feasibility and Acceptability Study

• Research Trends of the Acupuncture Treatment for Vulvodynia

• Acupuncture for the Treatment of Vulvodynia