Drs Martin & Sue Allbright Classical Acupuncture

'Blending an ancient medical approach of mind and body with modern health'

This site was last updated on 14.7.10

-Drs Martin and Sue Allbright Classical Acupuncture

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 -Classical Five Element acupuncture. We integrate this ancient system of Chinese acupuncture and moxibustion with our knowledge of conventional medicine.

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-founders and directors of the Beacon Clinic and are members of the British Acupuncture Council, the General Medical Council and the British Medical Acupuncture Society.

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:-

a list of a few ailments and conditions that acupuncture has been shown to be useful for
mentoring and supervision for acupuncturists
some significant acupuncture news.

News

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.

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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).

Herefordshire - Worcestershire Acupuncture Mentoring and Supervision

Here are just a few of the areas we may use to help you:-

Your own support systems. If we cannot care and look after ourselves our own energy imbalances may impede our ability to help our clients.
Confidentiality, unless this is firmly established, trust and rapport cannot take place and with it the ability to facilitate a clients own deepest healing.
Aspects of the client / acupuncturist relationship, such as how practitioners and clients can get locked into victim, rescuer and persecutor behaviours.
Contracts and boundaries, some form of flexible structure is necessary to help people on their road to health.
Time and money management, being aware of where our energy, money and time is going and how to help facilitate change.
Prevention of burnout.

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.

Mentoring and Supervision enables you as a practitioner to gain a broader and deeper experience of themselves and this helps you become a more effective person.

It enables a growing sense of professional self-esteem, and allows you to reconnect with the excitement and joy of being an acupuncturist.

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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

Ailments and Conditions

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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

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FEMALE & MALE REPRODUCTION

Dysmenorrhoea, primary

(ie painful menstrual periods)

Induction of labor

Leukopenia

Malposition of fetus, correction of breech
Morning sickness

Female infertility

Hypo-ovarianism

Labor pain
Lactation, deficiency

Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic

Polycystic ovary syndrome

(Stein-Leventhal syndrome)

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) - Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Cholecystitis, chronic, with acute exacerbation
Gastrokinetic disturbance

Recurrent lower urinary-tract infection

Ulcerative colitis, chronic

GENERAL

Adverse reactions side effects to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy in people with cancer
Postoperative pain

Cancer pain
Diabetes mellitus, non-insulin-dependent
Herpes zoster (human (alpha) herpesvirus 3) (shingles)
Neuralgia, post-herpetic (pain after shingles)
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

Insomnia

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

Confidentiality

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Summary

Ground floor wheelchair friendly

Click here for a link to the

BUPA acupuncture fact sheet

Dr Martin Allbright is a registered acupuncturist with BUPA

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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-killing, anti-inflammatory and sleep regulating effects and discovered that it may have a significant role in local acupuncture pain relief.

The compound - adenosine - was found to reduce discomfort in acupuncture in mice who already had normal levels of the compound. In mice with no adenosine the acupuncture had no effect.

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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