Acupuncture performed before and after embryo transfer improves pregnancy rates

Loss Rate (%) 6.8 (3/44) 30.4 (48/158) 0.001 Retrospective data analysis. DESIGN The Acupuncture Group consisted of 74 patients who received acupuncture on-site before and after fresh cycle non-donor embryo transfers from January 2007 – June 2008. (An additional 6 months of data from January to June 2008 has been added since the submission of this abstract.) The acupuncture treatments did not follow the Paulus protocol which has been used previously in several other acupuncture and IVF studies. The Control Group consisted of 320 patients with no acupuncture undergoing IVF cycles in the same time period.