Min S. Kim Acupuncture
Pain and Immunology Clinic
Min S. Kim Acupuncture
Pain and Immunology Clinic
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Fertility Enhancement Program
IUI or IVF support
The combination of Western and Eastern treatment maximizes the success rate by 50%
Natural conception support
Why Acupuncture for infertility is becoming popular
in Western world
Acupuncture has been used for thousand years to treat infertility in Eastern Asia. Today, in Western world, more and more people visit
acupuncture clinic for fertility treatment. There are many medical research data supporting the effect of acupuncture for fertility. Many fertility practitioners recognize acupuncture and give it a credit for its power although some conservative physicians do not believe any type of alternative medicine.
Acupuncture has a power to rectify your imbalanced organs and hormone system. As a results, it can improve the quality of the eggs and lowers the inflammatory condition. It can also Increases the blood flow to the uterus, which improves the chances of an embryo implanting in the uterine wall. Therefore, it optimizes the best condition to lead to conceive. Acupuncture help treat infertility by medically unknown reason or by specific reasons such as PCOS. For male, it can help increase sperm counts, mobility, and help to form healthy sperms.
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In the first day of your visit, we evaluate your body constitution and your health condition in our approach of view. Acupuncture treatment is, of course, different by patients. In general, Acupuncture can help adjust patients' unhealthy or unideal organ conditions (for example, unideal endometrium status) and stimulate ovarian and follicular function. Acupuncture treatment optimizes patients' internal conditions to prepare to conceive. If it is the case that OB/GYN physicians don't find any physical or hormonal cause of infertility (commonly called idiopathic; unexplained), acupuncturists with a perspective in Oriental Medicine might find problems and tell some issues to fix. For male, acupuncture treatment helps adjust sperms' motility, low count, and morphology.
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Elevated follicle stimulating hormone (FSH)
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Repeated miscarriages
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Unexplained (idiopathic) infertility
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Luteal phase defect
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Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS)
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Endometriosis
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IVF and IUI support
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Low sperm count, mobility, and morphology
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Most patients have 6 series treatment during the follicular phase in each cycle. The follicular phase is the period from the onset of menstruation to the time of the ovulation. The follicular phase can be variable in length (14-18 days) in each cycle or by people whereas the luteal phase which is the time between ovulation and the onset of menstruation is relatively constant at 14 days. In the luteal phase, patients have a weekly treatment.
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What I can expect and how you treat if I am seeking natural conception or IUI?
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What I can expect and how you treat if I prepare for IVF?
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If you start acupuncture treatment about two to three months ahead, that would be the best. However, it definitely helps no matter when you start.​ It is recommended that you receive treatment twice a week. ​​​​​​​​​​​
As explained above, acupuncture has a power to rectify your imbalanced organs and hormone system, and it can improve the quality of the eggs and lowers the inflammatory condition. It can also Increases the blood flow to the uterus, which improves the chances of an embryo implanting in the uterine wall. Acupuncture can help adjust patients' unhealthy or unideal organ conditions (for example, unideal endometrium status) and stimulate ovarian and follicular function. Acupuncture treatment optimizes patients' internal conditions to prepare to conceive. If it is the case that OB/GYN physicians don't find any physical or hormonal cause of infertility (commonly called idiopathic; unexplained), acupuncturists with a perspective in Oriental Medicine might find problems and tell some issues to fix.
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