Paul Knighton Acupuncture - Mickleover

17/02/2026

29/01/2025

Happy Lunar New Year!

30/04/2024

According to the National Institute for Health & Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines for chronic pain (2021), painkillers should no longer be prescribed for longer term pain.

Acupuncture was one of only four treatments recommended for chronic pain (NICE Guideline 193).

10/02/2024

Happy Lunar New Year!

The year of the Yang Wood Dragon intertwines the decent of Heaven’s Yang Wood coupled with the Earth Branch of the Dragon. Whilst the Dragon is predominantly Yang Earth, it has small fragments of Yin Wood & Yin Water.

This year, be aware of the opportunity to implement change.

16/05/2023

Anxiety is the theme of Mental Health Awareness Week 15-21 May 2023

Up to half a million people in the UK experience work-related stress every year along with other common stress factors include alcohol, smoking, exams, pregnancy, divorce, moving, death in family, lifestyle, drugs, poor nutrition and unemployment (Health and Safety Executive 2011). Anxiety is one of the commonest reactions to stress, such that the two are often considered together, and treated in the same way.

Recent systematic reviews of the evidence found consistently positive results in trials of acupuncture for anxiety (Amorim 2018: thirteen randomised controlled trials (RCTs); Goyata 2016).

23/02/2023

Studies have shown that the benefits of acupuncture for neck pain may be maintained up to 12 months after treatment (Cerzo-Tellez 2016; MacPherson 2015).

17/01/2023

In addition to being a safe and effective option to long term opioid based pharmaceuticals, scientific research supports increasing evidence advocating acupuncture for chronic back pain from injury or other sources (Yin 2017).

The World Health Organisation (WHO) lists treatment of Lower Back Pain and Sciatica, through clinical trials on Acupuncture, to be an effective treatment.

08/01/2023

According to Cochrane reviews (2009), acupuncture for tension type headaches & migraines is effective and recommended by NICE (National Institute for Clinical Excellence) guidelines in 2012.

Cochrane reviews (2016) found that acupuncture reduces migraine frequency and is as effective as prophylactic drugs.

Since 2005, in excess of 80 NHS publications have recommended acupuncture for tension headaches and migraines (BAcC, 2018)

According to the Migraine Trust, migraine is the third most common disease in the world, affecting about one in seven people.

Chronic migraine affects approximately 2% of the world population and three times as many women as men get migraines.