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I suffer with vulvadynia is there an acupuncturist who knows about this condition and could treat me to relieve or even cure the symptoms.

Vulvodynia is a particularly painful and distressing condition. Unfortunately it has not been very well researched, and the two articles which are most frequently cited

 

 

http://www.medicalacupuncture.org/aama_marf/journal/vol17_1/article3.html

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1297434/pdf/jrsocmed00003-0037.pdf

 

are not enough to satisfy the requirements for making a positive recommendation. An article published by one of our members in an acupuncture journal mentions it in passing as a condition often associated with interstitial cystitis

 

http://www.jcm.co.uk/media/sample_articles/IC.pdf

 

Interestingly, however, when this was recently posted as a topic on one of our members' forums for discussion there was very little 'chatter', which probably indicates that it is not frequently being treated.

 

This does not mean that it may not in your case be treatable. The strength of Chinese medicine lies precisely in its ability to connect apparently unrelated symptoms and make sense of them according to treatment protocols which have been developed over thousands of years. Visiting a practitioner local to you for a brief consultation to see whether in your case acupuncture may help may be the best course of action.

World Health Organisation


The World Health Organisation lists a wide variety of diseases or disorders for which acupuncture therapy has been tested in controlled clinical trials

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