Acupuncture for Health and Wellbeing
Vivien Shaw PhD, Dip Ac, MBAcC
Acupuncture is recommended by the NHS as an excellent treatment for chronic pain, headache, post-operative and joint pain
Traditional Chinese medicine is over two thousand years old, and in that time has been used to treat just about any condition that you can think of.
Modern medicine relies on clinical trials to establish that a treatment really works, and the evidence from the acupuncture research is compelling.
In addition to being highly effective, acupuncture has the key advantage is that it doesn't use drugs, and so has very few potential side effects.
In order for a therapy to be recommended to the NHS, all the available evidence is examined by senior scientists working for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). They then write guidance for the NHS suggesting gold standard treatment.
Having already stood the test of time, acupuncture is now proving itself a powerful treatment tool in modern medicine.
NHS information and recommendations
Vivien qualified as an acupuncturist in 1992, and has over 30 years experience working with a wide range of patients.
She has done a lot of work treating chronic pain and complex medical syndromes, and a holistic approach is fundamental to her treatment philosophy.
She is always happy to discuss your specific needs with you to provide the very best treatment available.
Vivien is also a researcher and public speaker with expertise in the origins of acupuncture. Read about her work!
Watch this video podcast where she talks about her research with Nick and Spod from Acutrack
Listen to her interview on the Acupuncture Point show on UK Health Radio.
Listen/read Acupuncture Through the Eyes of an Anatomist
She was also on the BBC World Service as part of an expert panel on
The Evidence: Putting the Mouth Back in the Body
