Acupuncture research
Research into acupuncture is growing every year. If you’d like to look at the evidence for yourself, these independent guidelines, reviews and trials are a good place to start.
NICE guideline: Chronic pain in over 16s (NG193)
The NHS guideline on assessing and managing chronic pain, including a recommendation on acupuncture for chronic primary pain.
Read more ↗Vickers and colleagues, The Journal of Pain, 2018Acupuncture for chronic pain: update of an individual patient data meta-analysis
Pools the individual data of more than 20,000 patients from 39 trials, and looks at how long effects lasted after treatment ended.
Read more ↗Cochrane systematic review, 2016Acupuncture for preventing migraine attacks
An independent review of the clinical trials of acupuncture for people with episodic migraine, with a plain-language summary.
Read more ↗McDonald and Janz, 2017The Acupuncture Evidence Project
A review of the research on acupuncture across more than 100 conditions, including sleep, stress, digestive and women’s health.
Read more ↗The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation TrustAcupuncture at The Royal Marsden
How a leading NHS cancer hospital offers acupuncture to patients before, during and after cancer treatment.
Read more ↗British Acupuncture CouncilAcupuncture research
The BAcC’s summaries of current acupuncture research.
Read more ↗Where the evidence is strongest
Research supports acupuncture for the short-term relief of:
- Chronic low back pain
- Neck pain
- Tension-type headaches
- Migraine
- Jaw (TMJ) pain
- Knee pain from osteoarthritis, alongside other treatment
- Symptoms of overactive bladder
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