How many acupuncture treatments will it take for your patient to see significant improvement?
How many acupuncture treatments should you recommend?
Quelle: http://www.acuprosper.com/dosing-your-medicine/
How many acupuncture treatments will it take?
It can be difficult for acupuncturists to estimate the number of treatments it will take. I feel that this should be discussed more during our education.
Here are the guidelines I use to make this estimation, if you’d like to see.
But I wanted to know what other acupuncturist’s experiences are with this. I’d like to be able to guide acupuncturists based on a big sample size, rather than just my own experience.
I’ve asked acupuncturists what their experience has been – how many treatments it usually takes to see significant improvement for various symptoms.
I got more than 180 responses. Here’s what the data shows:
![](https://ogka-tcm.at/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/02-Acute-Back-Pain-700x400.png)
![Chronic Back Pain](https://ogka-tcm.at/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/03-Chronic-Back-Pain-700x400.png)
![Digestive Symptoms](https://ogka-tcm.at/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/04-Digestive-Symptoms-700x400.png)
![Migraine Headaches](https://ogka-tcm.at/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/05-Migraine-Headaches-700x400.png)
![non-migraine Headaches](https://ogka-tcm.at/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/06-non-migraine-Headaches-700x400.png)
![Fatigue](https://ogka-tcm.at/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/07-Fatigue-700x400.png)
![Insomnia](https://ogka-tcm.at/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/08-Insomnia-700x400.png)
![Menstrual Symptoms](https://ogka-tcm.at/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/09-Menstrual-Symptoms-700x400.png)
![Anxiety & Depression](https://ogka-tcm.at/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/10-Anxiety-Depression-700x400.png)
![Chronic Injury or Painpng](https://ogka-tcm.at/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/11-Chronic-Injury-or-Painpng-700x400.png)
![Acute Injury or Pain](https://ogka-tcm.at/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/12-Acute-Injury-or-Pain-700x400.png)
![Menopausal Symptoms](https://ogka-tcm.at/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/13-Menopausal-Symptoms-700x400.png)
![](https://ogka-tcm.at/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/14-Fertility-1-700x400.png)
![Allergies](https://ogka-tcm.at/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/15-Allergies-700x400.png)
Average treatment time overall: 8 treatments
If you’d like to download the csvfile of results, click on the image below or here: Acupuncture Treatment Dosage.