Acupuncture needles are FDA approved, sterile, disposable and made of solid steel. National and International health organizations as well as modern research agree that acupuncture is a safe and highly effective treatment modality for many conditions.

The National Institute Of Health (NIH) published the following data after the 1997 NIH Consensus Development Conference. The statement in its entirety can be viewed online at http://odp.od.nih.gov/consensus/cons/107/107_statement.htm

“The data in support of acupuncture are as strong as those for many accepted Western medical therapies”

“One of the advantages of acupuncture is that the incidence of adverse effects is substantially lower than that of many drugs or other accepted medical procedures used for the same conditions”

“Both animal and human laboratory and clinical experience suggest that the majority of subjects respond to acupuncture, with a minority not responding”

“There exist a number of studies of sufficient quality to assess the efficacy of acupuncture”

“The occurrence of adverse events in the practice of acupuncture has been documented to be extremely low”