Acupuncture, effective and painless

L’Organisation Mondiale de la Santé (OMS) reconnaît l’acupuncture comme traitement efficace pour les affections suivantes :

Douleurs et troubles musculo-squelettiques : lombalgie, cervicalgie, douleurs du genou, épaule gelée, tennis elbow, sciatique, entorses.

Troubles neurologiques et psychologiques : céphalées, migraines, douleurs faciales, dépression, séquelles post AVC.

Affections digestives : ulcère gastroduodénal, gastrite aiguë et chronique, colique hépatique, colique néphrétique, dysenterie aiguë bacillaire.

Problèmes gynécologiques et obstétriques : dysménorrhée primaire, nausées matinales de la grossesse, induction du travail, correction de la malposition fœtale.

Également rhinite allergique, leucopénie, douleurs dentaires, nausées et vomissements, douleurs postopératoires.

L’acupuncture n’est pas douloureuse. C’est une question qui revient souvent, et c’est normal. La réponse est non, de nos jours, l’acupuncture ne fait pas mal. En effet, les nouvelles écoles (dont nous faisons partie), ne cherche plus les grosses simulations comme on pouvait le faire auparavant. Chez BioMed MTC, vous ne ressentirez pas plus qu’une piqure de moustique sur certains endroits. Il faut savoir que l’aiguille utilisée en acupuncture est 30 fois plus fine que l’aiguille d’une seringue!

The number of acupuncture sessions required depends on the condition treated. However, acupuncture stimulates the body's self-repair process, so it takes a little time to start obtaining convincing results. In many cases, in two months, the body has time to do the work and also to record the new situation of well-being to prevent relapses. This is why at Biomed MTC, we recommend having regular follow-up. A good way is, once you have come out of the treatment period, is to carry out one session per month to keep the effects over time.

Acupuncture is the only method that goes under the epidermis and thus causes deep changes. Depending on the case, the therapist can advise massages, electro-acupuncture and other methods adapted to the patient's needs. If you already follow a treatment with a physiotherapist or an osteopath then it is a multi-therapy treatment with acupuncture, which will also be very effective. Acupuncture is not incompatible with other treatments. On the contrary, its true strength is to be the main treatment but also to multiply the effects of other therapies.

In our clinic, all the needles are individually packed. They are sterile, for single use and are in plastic tubes. The acupuncturist cannot therefore touch the needle until insertion into the skin. Before the insertion of the needle, the skin is sterilized with alcohol and a cotton is applied when the needles are removed. In order for the whole hygiene cycle to be guaranteed, a specialized company comes to pick up used needles every month in a closed container for safe disposal and recycling for other uses.

Encore une fois, cela dépend des acupuncteurs et des thérapeutes. Même si l’acupuncture n’est pas douloureuse, dans notre clinique, on ne pique pas avant 4, voire 5 ans.

Yes, acupuncture is reimbursed by all supplementary insurance providers provided that the therapists are approved by ASCA and RME. At Biomed MTC, all our therapists are ASCA and RME approved and some are also approved by Visana and have the federal diploma in naturopathy. They completed 3 training cycles totaling more than 2400 hours and several years of clinical training.