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IVF, Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
Whether you are a current patient of Toronto Total Wellness Centre or not, we would be happy to assist you with an acupuncture treatment on the day of your IVF transfer. Recent studies suggest that having acupuncture treatments, administered by a qualified and experienced practitioner, as an adjunt therapy to your IVF or other assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatments can improve the success rates by 65%.1
Patients attend Total Wellness Centre for a variety of reasons, for varying lengths of time, and with varying frequency. Treatments over several months allow the practitioner to observe several menstrual cycles, and to fully address any underlying causes of infertility. However, recent studies have clearly shown that most patients will benefit from even just one or two treatments of acupuncture around the period of time of their IVF treatment. Review a recent Associated Press article on one of the latest areas of research, combining acupuncture with IVF.
Acupuncture can both increase the efficacy of IVF leading to a better success rate, and reduce the pain associated with IVF. Reducing the pain leads to lower stress associated with the IVF procedure and in turn to a higher success rate. While we firmly believe natural healing techniques like acupuncture, herbal medicine and traditional Chinese medicine work best over the long run, any studies which show how acupuncture can help our patients must be considered.
Total Wellness Centre is ideally located close to many western fertility clinics. The following fertility centres are located within a few minute drive of Total Wellness Centre:
- Hannam Fertility Centre
- Toronto Centre for Advanced Reproductive Technology (TCART)
- CReATe (Canadian Reproductive Assisted Technology)
- LifeQuest Centre for Reproductive Medicine
- Reproductive Biology Unit, Mount Sinai Hospital
- St. Michael's Hospital, Fertility Clinic
- Toronto Fertility Sterility Institute
In addition, many other fertility centres are located across Toronto and the GTA including:
- Astra Fertility Clinic
- IVF Canada
- Markham Fertility Centre
- ReproMed, The Toronto Institute of Reproductive Medicine
To make an appointment, please call us at 416-532-9094. Please indicate whether you are seeking an acupuncture appointment on the day of your transfer so that we can schedule you appropriately.
References
1.Manheimer E, Zhang G, Udoff L, Haramati A, Langenberg P, Berman BM, Bouter LM., Effects of acupuncture on rates of pregnancy and live birth among women undergoing in vitro fertilisation: systematic review and meta-analysis., BMJ. 2008 Mar 8;336(7643):545-9. Epub 2008 Feb 7.
