Acupuncture can improve chances of successful fertility treatment

According to recent research in the USA, acupuncture can significantly improve a woman's chances of successful fertility treatment.

Patients receiving acupuncture during IVF had higher rates of pregnancy and lower rates of miscarriage.

Researchers from the Reproductive Medicine and Fertility Centre in Colorado Springs studied 114 women undergoing IVF.

Only 36 per cent of the women on conventional treatment became pregnant, compared with 51 per cent of those who had acupuncture.

Just 8 per cent of the acupuncture patients suffered a miscarriage, compared to 20 per cent of the other patients.

The therapy also reduced the risk of ectopic pregnancy, where the embryo develops in the fallopian tube rather than the womb.

Live birth rates in the acupuncture women were 23 per cent higher for each IVF cycle.


British Acupunture Council