Welcome to the Acupuncture for Fertility Network (AFN) website.

The AFN is a professional special interest group for acupuncturists dedicated to supporting those with fertility issues.

If you are thinking about seeking treatment for either natural or assisted conception then please, visit our membership list, to find a practitioner in your area.

What is the AFN?

Membership* to the AFN indicates a special interest in the use of traditional acupuncture in the treatment of fertility. AFN practitioners have done a minimum of 14 hours integrated training in gynaecology, with a specific emphasis on training to support assisted protocols.

AFN membership denotes a commitment to ongoing post graduate study in the areas of gynaecology and fertility, working to maintain an updated understanding of current treatment practices.

Acupuncture treatment can be beneficial for:

• “unexplained infertility”
• pre-conception care
• assisted conception support
• low sperm parameters: count, motility, morphology
• PCOS
• endometriosis
• ovulation issues
• menstrual cycle irregularities
• recurrent miscarriage

Any practitioner members of the bodies listed below are well qualified to treat in support of fertility issues. AFN members are practitioners who have chosen to also undertake study specific to assisted conception and had integrated training. membership list

* Members are all post graduate, and have qualified after a minimum 3-year course of study, and are practitioner members of:

• BAcC, British Acupuncture Council
• BMAS, British medical Acupuncture Society
• ATCM, Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
or an equivalent recognised body:
• Dip.Ac.UK, Cert Nanjing, BSc Hons TCM, BM Beijing TCM

If you are an acupuncturist interested in joining the AFN, please go to the 'Contact Us' page.

Press Contact

All public relations issues should be directed to Jani White, who is contactable via email, jani@naturechild.co.uk or call 0793 200 0025.

How to Join the AFN

If you are a post graduate acupuncturist interested in joining the AFN, please go to our contact us page, where you will find our membership form and details for joining.

Member Benefits

As an alliance the purpose of AFN is to help each other and the need to support each other through study and exchange, to benefit the other members with

Another key purpose of AFN is to develop a recognisable profile with the public that helps to promote the use of traditional acupuncture in the support of fertility and gynaecology.

AFN has no affiliation with any particular individuals, colleges, clinics or schools of thought of acupuncture.

Courses

Current courses, seminars and workshops in the fields of Gynaecology and fertility can be found listed here. If you find details of courses not listed here, please contact Helen Newton so that we may add them to this list.

The content of the original seminars - the Obstetric Curriculum and the Fertiltiy Curriculum - which form the basis of an AFN members knowledge are now available as part of the College of Traditional Acupuncture (CTA), Hatton, Warwickshire. These courses can be undertaken as part of your ongoing CPD or they can form part of an MA at the college if you wish.

For further information on these course and to book please click on this link  www.naturechild.co.uk/upcoming-events   or visit the CTA website at www.acupuncture-coll.ac.uk/college-event-details

Current Training Courses


Acupuncture in Gynaecology & Male and Female Fertility -    Dates for 2010/2011: 6th & 7th Nov 2010 and 29th & 30th Jan 2011


Details can be found by clicking on the link http://www.cta-uk.net/up-and-coming-cpd-workshops/acupuncture-in-gynaecology-male-female-fertility-acupuncture-support-for-natural-assisted-conception.

For further information on the course please click on this link www.naturechild.co.uk/upcoming-events

 

 
 
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