EBOOK
EBOOK ACUPUNTUR FOR IVF AND ASSISTED REPRODUCTION
Over the past decade or so, acupuncture treatment of patients undergoing Assisted Reproductive
Technology (ART) treatments has gained in popularity. With this increased demand for acupuncture
treatment, the role of fertility acupuncturists in the management of patients undergoing ART treatments has expanded. In contemporary fertility acupuncture practice, patients expect their acupuncturists to have a thorough understanding of not only Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), but also
all Orthodox medical aspects that relate directly to the practice of fertility acupuncture. Patients expect
their acupuncturists not only to treat them, but also to advise them about diagnoses, tests and investigations, clinic suitability, different treatment protocols, and stages of treatment and generally support them on many levels.
With these increased expectations, acupuncture practitioners find themselves looking for additional resources of information to supplement their often very limited training in this field of medicine. However, there is still a significant gap in the available literature on how to treat this
patient group.
With this book, we aim to provide fertility acupuncturists with an ‘all-in-one’ resource on just about
everything they are likely to need to know when managing patients undergoing ART treatments such
as In Vitro Fertilization (IVF). This textbook is based on our combined 20 years of clinical experience,
our experience of lecturing in this field and (whenever possible) on up-to-date evidence-based literature. This book draws its ethos and inspiration both from the technical complexities of the fastmoving and ever-developing field of conventional reproductive medicine and synthesizes this with
traditional acupuncture practical approaches. The latter are derived from our interpretation of the
classical acupuncture texts and supported with contemporary acupuncture research-based studies
(where these are available). It attempts to simplify complex information into easily accessible and
understandable material
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