IVF support clinic: Your Helping Hand
Acupuncture can form an important part of your IVF treatment. It has become a popular add on therapy in recent years.
Our clinic is in a perfect location to support your IVF treatment, being only ten minutes away from Bourn Hall IVF Clinic and twenty minutes away from Cambridge IVF.
Research
A 2018 systematic review and meta-analysis found acupuncture to have a significant treatment effect in improving the birth rates of sub-fertile women undergoing IVF or ICSI.
A summary of previous reviews from 2009 to 2017 found acupuncture had a beneficial treatment effect on clinical pregnancy rate. However, according to GRADE assessment guidelines, the scientific methods of the studies included in this review need to be improved.
Acupuncture may be a suitable treatment option to help reduce stress and anxiety levels for women suffering with subfertility.
Research indicates that the effectiveness of acupuncture may be dose-dependent, that is a sufficient number of acupuncture treatments are required over an adequate period of time
Find out more about Research into IVF acupuncture treatment.