Acupuncture Richmond
Professional Acupuncture To Reduce Pain, Improve Movement & Support Injury Recovery
- ✓ MSc Qualified Sport & Exercise Rehabilitation Therapist
- ✓ Personalised One-to-One Acupuncture Treatment
- ✓ Trusted By Clients Across Richmond & Surrounding Areas
Professional Acupuncture In Richmond
Acupuncture is an evidence-informed treatment commonly used to help reduce pain, relieve muscle tension, improve mobility, and support recovery from musculoskeletal injuries and persistent pain conditions. Whether you're recovering from a sports injury, experiencing back or neck pain, or struggling with ongoing muscle tightness, acupuncture can be an effective part of a personalised treatment programme designed around your individual needs.
At MG Rehab, acupuncture is never used as a standalone, one-size-fits-all treatment. Every appointment begins with a detailed assessment to understand your symptoms, movement patterns, injury history, and recovery goals. This allows treatment to focus on the underlying cause of your pain while supporting your body's natural recovery process.
Depending on your assessment, acupuncture may be combined with Exercise Therapy, Sports Massage, Joint Mobilisation, and Injury Rehabilitation to help reduce pain, restore movement, improve function, and support long-term recovery.
Based at Old Deer Park Sports Ground in Richmond, MG Rehab provides professional acupuncture treatment for clients throughout Richmond, Twickenham, Kew, East Sheen, Barnes, Mortlake, Teddington, and the surrounding areas.
How Acupuncture Can Help
Acupuncture is commonly used alongside rehabilitation and hands-on therapy to help reduce pain, improve movement, and support recovery from musculoskeletal injuries. Every treatment is tailored to your symptoms, activity levels, and recovery goals, helping you move more comfortably and return confidently to everyday life, work, and sport.
Reduce Pain
Acupuncture may help reduce pain associated with muscle injuries, joint problems, tendon pain, and persistent musculoskeletal conditions, allowing you to move more comfortably throughout daily activities.
Relieve Muscle Tension
Treatment can help reduce excessive muscle tightness and improve tissue relaxation, making movement more comfortable while supporting the rehabilitation process.
Improve Mobility
By helping reduce pain and muscle tension, acupuncture can improve flexibility, joint movement, and overall mobility, making everyday activities and exercise feel easier.
Support Injury Recovery
Acupuncture is often incorporated into rehabilitation programmes to support recovery following sports injuries, muscle strains, ligament sprains, and overuse injuries.
Complement Rehabilitation
Acupuncture works effectively alongside Exercise Therapy, Sports Massage, Joint Mobilisation, and personalised rehabilitation programmes to support long-term recovery.
Improve Long-Term Function
Rather than simply providing short-term relief, acupuncture is used as part of a broader treatment approach focused on improving movement quality, reducing recurring pain, and helping you stay active.
Who Can Benefit From Acupuncture?
Acupuncture can benefit people of all ages and activity levels experiencing musculoskeletal pain, injury, or movement-related problems. Whether you're recovering from a sports injury, managing persistent pain, or looking to improve mobility and physical function, treatment is tailored to your individual symptoms and recovery goals.
Acupuncture is commonly used alongside rehabilitation programmes to help active individuals return to training, office workers reduce pain caused by prolonged sitting, and anyone experiencing muscle tension, joint stiffness, or recurring injuries. Treatment focuses on supporting recovery while helping you move more comfortably and confidently.
Every treatment begins with a detailed assessment to determine whether acupuncture is appropriate for your condition and how it can best support your recovery.
Conditions Commonly Treated With Acupuncture
Acupuncture can help people experiencing a wide range of musculoskeletal injuries and persistent pain conditions, including Sports Injuries, Back Pain, Neck & Shoulder Pain, Running Injuries, and Joint Pain & Stiffness. Every treatment plan is personalised to your symptoms, functional limitations, lifestyle, and long-term recovery goals.
Sports Injuries
Targeted treatment and rehabilitation strategies designed to support recovery and help you return to training, competition, and everyday activity.
Back Pain Treatment
Reduce muscular tension, improve movement, and address contributing factors commonly associated with back pain.
Neck & Shoulder Pain
Relieve tension, improve mobility, and restore comfortable movement through personalised treatment.
Running Injuries
Support recovery from Achilles injuries, shin splints, runner's knee, and other common running-related conditions.
Joint Pain & Stiffness
Improve mobility and reduce restrictions around affected joints through targeted hands-on treatment.
Muscle Tightness & Tension
Address persistent tightness caused by sport, exercise, work, posture, or everyday activities.
What To Expect During Your Acupuncture Treatment
Acupuncture treatment at MG Rehab is tailored to your individual symptoms, injury, and recovery goals. Rather than following a standard treatment protocol, every session begins with a detailed assessment to understand the underlying cause of your pain and determine how acupuncture can best support your recovery.
Initial Assessment
Your appointment begins with a detailed consultation discussing your symptoms, medical history, activity levels, lifestyle, and treatment goals. Movement, posture, joint mobility, and muscle function may also be assessed to help identify the factors contributing to your pain.
Personalised Treatment Plan
Based on your assessment, a personalised treatment plan is created around your symptoms, goals, and suitability for acupuncture. This helps ensure treatment is targeted, appropriate, and aligned with your wider recovery plan.
Acupuncture Treatment
Fine, sterile, single-use needles are gently inserted into carefully selected points to help reduce pain, relieve muscle tension, improve movement, and support your body's natural recovery process.
Relaxation & Recovery
Once the needles are in place, you'll have time to relax while treatment takes effect. Many people find acupuncture to be a comfortable and calming experience, with sessions typically lasting around 20 to 30 minutes depending on your treatment plan.
Integrated Rehabilitation
Where appropriate, acupuncture is combined with hands-on therapy and rehabilitation techniques to provide a more comprehensive approach to recovery. This may include exercise therapy, sports massage, joint mobilisation, or movement retraining depending on your individual needs.
Ongoing Progress
Your progress is reviewed throughout treatment, with recommendations adjusted as your symptoms improve. Depending on your recovery goals, you may also receive personalised rehabilitation exercises and advice to help maintain results between appointments.
Acupuncture As Part Of Your Recovery
Acupuncture is often most effective when used as part of a broader rehabilitation programme. Depending on your assessment and recovery goals, treatment may be combined with other evidence-informed therapies to reduce pain, restore movement, and support long-term recovery.
Sports massage helps reduce muscle tension, improve flexibility, increase circulation, and prepare muscles for rehabilitation. Combining sports massage with acupuncture can help improve movement while reducing muscular discomfort.
Learn MoreDeep tissue massage targets deeper layers of muscle and connective tissue to relieve persistent tightness, improve mobility, and reduce restrictions that may contribute to pain or reduced movement.
Learn MoreExercise therapy forms the foundation of many rehabilitation programmes, helping restore strength, mobility, stability, and confidence through progressive exercises tailored to your recovery.
Learn MoreGentle joint mobilisation techniques help improve movement, reduce stiffness, and restore normal joint function where mobility has become restricted through injury or persistent pain.
Learn MoreFor more complex injuries, acupuncture may be incorporated into a personalised injury rehabilitation programme designed to help restore movement, rebuild strength, and safely return you to work, sport, and everyday activities.
Learn MoreSupportive taping techniques may be used alongside acupuncture to provide additional stability, reduce strain on injured tissues, and help maintain normal movement during recovery.
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Why Choose MG Rehab For Acupuncture?
Finding the right practitioner is just as important as choosing the right treatment. At MG Rehab, acupuncture is delivered as part of an evidence-informed rehabilitation approach, combining clinical assessment, personalised treatment, and progressive rehabilitation to help reduce pain, restore movement, and support long-term recovery.
MSc Qualified Rehabilitation Therapist
Receive treatment from an MSc-qualified Sport & Exercise Rehabilitation Therapist with extensive experience helping people recover from musculoskeletal injuries, reduce pain, improve mobility, and return confidently to everyday activities and sport.
Evidence-Informed Treatment
Acupuncture is integrated into personalised treatment programmes alongside Exercise Therapy, Joint Mobilisation, and hands-on therapy where appropriate, ensuring treatment is tailored to your symptoms, activity levels, and recovery goals.
Personalised One-to-One Care
Every appointment is focused entirely on you. No generic treatment plans or rushed appointments—just personalised care designed around your injury, symptoms, and long-term recovery.
Elite Sporting Experience
Experience working with professional athletes provides valuable insight into managing sports injuries, improving performance, and supporting a safe return to physical activity at every level.
Long-Term Results
Treatment focuses on reducing pain, restoring movement, improving physical function, and helping reduce the risk of recurring symptoms, allowing you to stay active long after treatment has finished.
Acupuncture FAQs
If you're considering acupuncture, it's natural to have questions about how treatment works, what it can help with, and what to expect during your appointment. Below are answers to some of the most common questions about acupuncture at MG Rehab. If you need further advice, feel free to get in touch.
Acupuncture is a treatment that involves inserting fine, sterile, single-use needles into carefully selected points on the body. It is commonly used to help reduce pain, relieve muscle tension, improve movement, and support recovery from musculoskeletal injuries and persistent pain conditions.
Most people experience very little discomfort during treatment. The needles used are extremely fine, and many people describe the sensation as a mild ache, tingling, warmth, or heaviness. Once the needles are in place, treatment is generally relaxing and well tolerated.
- Acupuncture may help people experiencing a range of musculoskeletal conditions, including Back Pain, Neck & Shoulder Pain, Sports Injuries, Running Injuries, Muscle Tightness & Tension, tendon pain, and Joint Pain & Stiffness.
Yes. Acupuncture is frequently used alongside Injury Rehabilitation to help reduce pain, relieve muscle tension, and support recovery following sports injuries. Treatment is always tailored to your injury, symptoms, and rehabilitation goals.
Acupuncture may help manage persistent musculoskeletal pain, particularly when combined with personalised rehabilitation, exercise therapy, and other evidence-informed treatments. During your assessment, treatment recommendations will be tailored to your individual symptoms and recovery goals.
The number of treatments required depends on the nature of your condition, how long you've been experiencing symptoms, and your recovery goals. Some people notice improvements after only a few sessions, while more persistent conditions may benefit from a longer course of treatment.
Yes. Acupuncture is generally considered safe when performed by a suitably qualified healthcare professional using sterile, single-use needles. Your medical history and suitability for treatment will always be discussed before treatment begins.
Absolutely. Acupuncture is often combined with Sports Massage, Exercise Therapy, Joint Mobilisation, and personalised rehabilitation programmes to provide a comprehensive approach to recovery.
No. You can book an acupuncture appointment directly without needing a referral from your GP or another healthcare professional.
Acupuncture In Richmond & Surrounding Areas
MG Rehab is based at Old Deer Park Sports Ground in Richmond and regularly welcomes clients from Twickenham, Kew, East Sheen, Barnes, Mortlake, Teddington, and the surrounding areas.
Whether you're recovering from a sports injury, managing persistent pain, or looking to improve movement and function, personalised acupuncture treatment can help reduce pain, relieve muscle tension, and support your recovery.
Depending on your individual needs, treatment may also include Exercise Therapy, Sports Massage, Joint Mobilisation, and Injury Rehabilitation to help restore movement, improve physical function, and achieve the best possible long-term outcome.
Conveniently located in Richmond with excellent transport links and parking nearby, the clinic provides one-to-one treatment in a professional, welcoming environment focused on helping you move better and stay active.
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MG Rehab is highly rated by clients seeking sports massage, injury rehabilitation, acupuncture and pain relief in Richmond and the surrounding areas.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 based on 44 Google reviews
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Can’t recommend Michael enough. Have seen him on a number of occasions for long standing issues, most of which are as a consequence of playing football for 24 years. Michael took the time to listen to me to understand the areas of concern and then proceeded to treat the troublesome areas. While the session may have ended I left with a treatment plan to action, resulting in greater mobility and less pain. Would recommend Michael to anyone!
Mitchell PotterC
Michael knows his stuff inside out. He’s helped me improve hamstring and lower back pain in just a few sessions. I’d highly recommend him to anyone looking to recover from injury or just stay fit and active. I’ve been to many physios in my time and Michael is amongst the best. If you’re considering physio with Michael, just book in now - you won’t regret it.
Catherine Seaborn
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