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Acupuncture for new mums
Getting back to full strength Acupuncture for new mums can be a big help, and this is certainly a time when you could do with some help! Our culture tends to expect everyone to take a few weeks off, have a baby, and carry on pretty as if not much has really happened. In reality your body has been through an enormously taxing process, of growing another human being from scratch, going through the huge labour of childbirth, and then generating the milk to sustain your new baby's whole nutritional needs.
The challenges and sleep-deprivation of looking after a tiny baby can also mean that looking after yourself goes out of the window, just when you and your body could do with some help, support, nourishment, and tender loving care. Happily acupuncture for new mums may be able to help with:
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Other conditions Acupuncture can help with a wide range of health problems, click below to find out more:
Detailed references (1) http://www.acupuncture-schools.us/national-institute-health-nih-acupuncture.cfm, referring to World Health Organisation (2002). Acupuncture: Review and Analysis of Reports on Controlled Clinical Trial, see http://apps.who.int/bookorders/anglais/detart1.jsp?sesslan=1&codlan=1&codcol=93&codcch=196 (2) Rampes (2001). The safety of acupuncture. British Medical Journal 2001;323(7311):467 (1 September), doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7311.467, see http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/323/7311/467 (3) From the 'About Us' area of the Clinical Evidence BMJ website, page titled 'How much do we know', http://clinicalevidence.bmj.com/ceweb/about/knowledge.jsp. Extract at Oct 2009: "So what can Clinical Evidence tell us about the state of our current knowledge? What proportion of commonly used treatments are supported by good evidence, what proportion should not be used or used only with caution, and how big are the gaps in our knowledge? Of around 2500 treatments covered 13% are rated as beneficial, 23% likely to be beneficial, 8% as trade off between benefits and harms, 6% unlikely to be beneficial, 4% likely to be ineffective or harmful, and 46%, the largest proportion, as unknown effectiveness" © Jessica Kennedy 2005-09, all rights reserved |