The following conditions are those that I have personally known to respond to acupuncture. I include this page not to make any claims (see below), but in response to referring vets who often ask "What sort of thing can acupuncture potentially treat?", or "What can we use acupuncture for?". Most people know it can be used for sore backs and legs, but there is a surprising amount of other conditions that it has been used to treat effectively.

The list below is by no means exhaustive, but I hope it will give a flavour of the types of conditions that can often be helped with acupuncture.

I always like to see animals that have had full diagnostic workups, if possible. If I feel there is an area that has not been covered in the workup, I will refer the case back so that this area can be investigated by the primary vet. There are cases that have had little or no diagnostics. These cases I will treat, but only where the owner states that they understand the details of any diagnostic investigation and decide against that avenue or where the animal cannot undergo the tests that would be necessary to confirm a condition e.g. the very old or in cases of other debility limiting diagnostic proceedures.

As a rule of thumb, you can think of conventional medicine as being quite good at coping with the clinical signs of acute disease, but acupuncture, like homeopathy, being very good with chronic disease.

Equine Conditions

Musculoskeletal:

Lameness of unknown origin (See Acupuncture in Practice)
Navicular Disease
Laminitis

Respiratory:

COPD/ Hay dust cough/Hay allergy
Chronic nasal discharges
Chronic cough

Urinary System:

Incontinence
Kidney disease

Reproductive System:

Infertility
Cystic Ovaries
Acylicity in maress

Canine Conditions

Musculoskeleta:

Cruciate Ligament Damage (in conjunction with acupuncture)
Lameness of unknown origin
Bruising/Sprains
Arthritic and Rheumatic joints with or without boney exostoses

Respiratory:

Chronic bronchitis/cough
Kennel Cough

Reproductive System:

Ovarian dysfuntion
Recurrant infections of the genital tract

Feline Conditions

Musculoskeleta

Lameness of unknown origin (with Acupuncture)
Cruciate damage
Arthritic/Rheumatic problems

Respiratory

Feline Asthma
Chronic nasal discharges
Chronic Cat Flu
Chronic sneezing

Urinary

Kidney disease
Incontinence

Please note that I am not making the claim that I am
able to cure all these conditions all the time.
No system of medicine on earth could or should make such statements.