The role of acupuncture in the management of subfertility

Complementary And Alternative Medicine Practice in Infertility

“…Doğurganliği olumsuz etkileyen stresi azaltir, hastanin gevşeyerek rahatlamasini sağlar (17) . PCOS olan hastalara uygulanan düşük frekansli elektro akupunkturun sonuçlari değerlendirilmiş, endokrin parametreleri ve anovulasyon üzerine uzun süre etkilerinin olduğu belirtilmiştir.…”

Acupuncture andIn VitroFertilization: A Retrospective Chart Review

“…To date, eight meta-analyses have yielded contradicting conclusions. Manheimer et al (7 trials, N = 1366), 1 Ng et al (10 trials, N = 2003), 2 Cheong et al (13 trials, N = 2300), 3 and Zheng et al (24 trials, N = 5807) 4 all found that acupuncture improved IVF-ET clinical pregnancy outcomes. Conversely, El-Toukhy et al (13 trials, N = 2500), 5 Cheong et al (14 trials, N = 2670), 6 El-Toukhy et al (14 trials, N = 2870), 7 and Sunkara et al (14 trials, N = 2870) 8 all reported that acupuncture did not improve these outcomes.…”

Acupuncture: an effective tool on procedures of in vitro fertilization?

“…Acupuncture can be recommended as one of the effective analgesic methods for patients who are unable to comply with the conventional analgesia because of adverse effects during and after transvaginal ultrasound-guided oocyte retrieval (Sator-Katzenschlager et al, 2006). Except for the study by Sator-Katzenschlager et al (2006), other studies (Gejervall et al, 2005;; Ng et al, 2008; the pregnancy rate between the acupuncture group and the control group receiving conscious sedation for pain relief.…”