
Acupuncture results statistics
Compiled by the Washington Acupuncture Center from April, 1973 to April, 1976.
It should be noted that the language of the law requires that practitioners of Acupuncture or Chinese medicine not claim to treat the conditions listed below, but the symptoms of those conditions. However, if you speak to those who have been treated, their personal testimony might suggest otherwise, that both the symptoms and conditions were corrected.
Some patients were treated for more than one of these conditions.
Note: In the interest of responsible journalism, it should be noted that the information found on this page came to Acupuncture.com via a professional source, not a research organization. Our assumption of the methodology used to gain this information was the tracking of patients' progress at the Washington Acupuncture Center, as opposed to a study including a control group and other conventional research devices.
- Number of Cases: 205
- Number of treatments: 6-20
- Significant Improvement: 174
- Slight Improvement: 10
- No Improvement: 21
- Number of Cases: 287
- Number of treatments: 6-22
- Significant Improvement: 256
- Slight Improvement: 28
- No Improvement: 3
- Degenerative
- Number of Cases: 2346
- Number of treatments: 6-34
- Significant Improvement: 1955
- Slight Improvement: 367
- No Improvement: 24
- Rheumatoid
- Number of Cases: 827
- Number of treatments: 10-66
- Significant Improvement: 634
- Slight Improvement: 177
- No Improvement: 16
- Number of Cases: 683
- Number of treatments: 6-16
- Significant Improvement: 584
- Slight Improvement: 81
- No Improvement: 18
- Number of Cases: 42
- Number of treatments: 10-55
- Significant Improvement: 30
- Slight Improvement: 10
- No Improvement: 2
- Number of Cases: 872
- Number of treatments: 6-28
- Significant Improvement: 686
- Slight Improvement: 183
- No Improvement: 3
- Number of Cases: 68
- Number of treatments: 6-37
- Significant Improvement: 52
- Slight Improvement: 2
- No Improvement: 14
- Number of Cases: 573
- Number of treatments: 6-48
- Significant Improvement: 539
- Slight Improvement: 28
- No Improvement: 6
- Number of Cases: 396
- Number of treatments: 6-10
- Significant Improvement: 334
- Slight Improvement: 38
- No Improvement: 24
- Number of Cases: 734
- Number of treatments: 6-16
- Significant Improvement: 653
- Slight Improvement: 44
- No Improvement: 37
- Number of Cases: 266
- Number of treatments: 6-24
- Significant Improvement: 251
- Slight Improvement: 12
- No Improvement: 3
- Number of Cases: 528
- Number of treatments: 10-68
- Significant Improvement: 449
- Slight Improvement: 74
- No Improvement: 5
- Number of Cases: 569
- Number of treatments: 10-60
- Significant Improvement: 293
- Slight Improvement: 204
- No Improvement: 72
- Number of Cases: 317
- Number of treatments: 6-24
- Significant Improvement: 210
- Slight Improvement: 71
- No Improvement: 36
- Number of Cases: 2106
- Number of treatments: 6-32
- Significant Improvement: 1847
- Slight Improvement: 227
- No Improvement: 32
- Number of Cases: 475
- Number of treatments: 10-182
- Significant Improvement: 293
- Slight Improvement: 102
- No Improvement: 80
- Number of Cases: 123
- Number of treatments: 10-34
- Significant Improvement: 58
- Slight Improvement: 38
- No Improvement: 27
- Number of Cases: 98
- Number of treatments: 6-12
- Significant Improvement: 56
- Slight Improvement: 24
- No Improvement: 18
- Number of Cases: 207
- Number of treatments: 6-24
- Significant Improvement: 130
- Slight Improvement: 46
- No Improvement: 31
- Number of Cases: 84
- Number of treatments: 6-18
- Significant Improvement: 62
- Slight Improvement: 14
- No Improvement: 8
- Number of Cases: 76
- Number of treatments: 6-16
- Significant Improvement: 52
- Slight Improvement: 19
- No Improvement: 5

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