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Acupuncture has a place in the management of 'Back Pain'
The National Institute of Clinical Excellence NICE has published guidelines based on research that states that acupuncture has a place in the care of a person sufering with back pain. For more information please click here.


We are both medical doctors practicing traditional -
When you are having physical or emotional health problems, (a list of a few of these problems can be viewed below) we draw on our unique blend of experience to help you. We hope we answer your questions about traditional acupuncture and what happens when you come to us for a consultation and treatment. If we have not, please feel free to speak to us. We have over 64 combined years of training and clinical skills, from working within and outside of the NHS. We are very happy to discuss any aspect of your situation.
In Malvern and the surrounding areas, our medical colleagues and the local community
recognise us as dual qualified acupuncture practitioners, who know when traditional
Chinese acupuncture treatment can be of benefit in its own right and when it can
also be used along side the work of conventional medicine. We also mentor, supervise
and lecture other acupuncturists. We are co-
Whilst our background in medicine influences our approach to running a modern acupuncture clinic, we are in no way a substitute for the expertise of your general practitioner.
There is so much more that ancient Chinese medicine and acupuncture can do to help not just for your mind and body but also for your spirit and well being.
We have chosen this way of offering health care.
Our acupuncture practice is based in the Beacon Clinic, Malvern, centered between Worcestershire and Herefordshire. Our comfortable professional facilities are all on the ground floor. This Malvern acupuncture clinic is very accessible by train or bus or road and public parking is available close by. For details of how to find us please go to 'Where we practice'.
We hope you enjoy this website as much as we have had in creating it ourselves and that it answers some of your questions on acupuncture. If not we would really appreciate your constructive feedback.
Further down this homepage we have:-
Every effort has been made to ensure that the information provided in this site is accurate. It is not the intention to mislead or misinform anyone.
People are increasingly recognising the immediate and ongoing quality of care that 'Classical five element acupuncture' provides in its holistic approach to well being. For most health issues, acupuncture can offer some help for the majority of people. And this we do across Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Gloucestershire and into parts of the West Midlands.

The Worcestershire Beacon on the Malvern Hills overlooking the three counties at sunset.
Road sign pointing to the Beacon Clinic in Portland Road.

We have been interested to find out where our clients have come from over the last 30 years of practicing acupuncture. Obviously apart from Malvern, Worcester and Upton upon Severn, they have come from Ledbury, Bromyard, Tewkesbury, Pershore, Inkberrow, and Birmingham. Interestingly we also discovered that there are a large number who come to us from Droitwich, Bewdley, Stourport on Severn and Bromsgrove, where they say they met us many years ago when we worked at the Kidderminster General and the old Worcester Hospitals.
General Comment
Whenever there is something written about acupuncture as an ‘alternative pain treatment’ or ‘acupuncture to quit smoking’ or ‘acupuncture and fertility’ or ‘facial acupuncture’ yes the information is frequently positive, however it frequently forgets to bring to our attention how body acupuncture can help with a persons emotions and psyche (as opposed to ear acupuncture or auricular acupuncture).

Here are just a few of the areas we may use to help you:-
For more information on this professional aspect of being an acupuncturist please click this link.
We provide Mentoring and Supervision for practitioners of acupuncture in Worcestershire and the surrounding areas either individually or in groups.


As we stated above there are many aspects to helping people with the health of their mind, body and spirit. Here we have used the World Health Organisation report to list a few of the conditions below that acupuncture can help with.
1. Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which acupuncture has been proved, through controlled trials, to be an effective treatment: are highlighted in black text
2. Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which the therapeutic effect of acupuncture
has been shown but for which further proof is needed: are highlighted in blue text
Acupuncture: Review and Analysis of Reports on Controlled Clinical Trials, WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, Geneva 2002. If you want a full copy of the 87 page report the pdf document can be downloaded from this link
LEG
Knee pain
Rheumatoid arthritis
Sciatica
Sprain
Fibromyalgia and fasciitis
Gouty arthritis
Osteoarthritis (ie regular arthritis)
Raynaud’s syndrome, primary

ARM
Periarthritis of shoulder
Rheumatoid arthritis
Sprain
Tennis elbow
Fibromyalgia and fasciitis
Gouty arthritis
Osteoarthritis (ie regular arthritis)
Raynaud’s syndrome, primary

BACK
Low back pain (back ache)
Spinal pain, acute



FEMALE & MALE REPRODUCTION
Dysmenorrhoea, primary
(ie painful menstrual periods)
Induction of labor
Leukopenia
Malposition of fetus, correction of breech
Morning sickness
Hypo-
Labor pain
Lactation, deficiency
Male sexual dysfunction, non-
Polycystic ovary syndrome
(Stein-
Premenstrual syndrome
Prostatitis, chronic

CHEST AND ABDOMEN
Hypertension, essential (high blood pressure)
Hypotension, primary (low blood pressure)
Bronchial asthma
Cardiac neurosis
Tietze syndrome (Rib pain)
Biliary colic
Dysentery, acute bacillary
Epigastralgia, acute (in peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis, and gastrospasm)
Nausea and vomiting
Renal colic (kidney pain)
Abdominal pain (in acute gastroenteritis or due to gastrointestinal spasm) -
Cholecystitis, chronic, with acute exacerbation
Gastrokinetic disturbance
Recurrent lower urinary-
Ulcerative colitis, chronic

GENERAL
Adverse reactions side effects to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy in people with
cancer
Postoperative pain
Cancer pain
Diabetes mellitus, non-
Herpes zoster (human (alpha) herpesvirus
3) (shingles)
Neuralgia, post-
Postoperative convalescence
Pruritus
(itching)

HEAD
Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)
Depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke)
Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)
Headache
Neck pain
Pain in dentistry (including dental pain and temporomandibular dysfunction)
Stroke
Bell’s palsy
Earache
Epistaxis, simple (without generalized or local disease) (nosebleeds)
Facial spasm
Ménières disease
Sjögren’s syndrome
Sore throat (including tonsillitis)
Temporomandibular joint dysfunction
(TMJ)
Stiff neck


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Acupuncture and Fertility
On March 10th 2010 there was a published statement by the ‘British Fertility Society’ which looked at various trials of acupuncture treatment around the time of embryo transfer. For more information please click here


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Acupuncture evidence for local pain relief
Researchers from the University of Rochester (New York) have looked a natural compound
called adenosine which has pain-
The compound -
The amount of adenosine present in our tissues may affect the level of discomfort we experience. It was observed that during and immediately after acupuncture needling adenosine levels in the tissues around the needle sites was 24 times greater than before treatment started. For more information click here

Adenosine
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