Condition
Acupuncture for sleep & insomnia
If insomnia keeps coming back, acupuncture may help you feel you're sleeping better. It works best alongside the sleep-focused therapy doctors recommend first, and the research is early but growing.
How it can help
- May help you feel you're sleeping better if insomnia keeps coming back.
- Used alongside the sleep therapy doctors recommend first (CBT for insomnia), or when that isn't a fit.
- Best studied in people with ongoing insomnia, not the occasional bad night.
What the research shows
- People with ongoing insomnia said they slept better with acupuncture than with a placebo version, by a few points on a sleep-quality scale.
- A talking therapy for sleep (CBT for insomnia) still works better, so doctors suggest it first.
- Effects on sleep measured by a device are still being studied.
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