{"id":526297,"date":"2010-04-09T16:54:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T20:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/alternative-treatments-widely-used-for-couples-attempting-to-get-pregnant\/"},"modified":"2010-04-09T16:54:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T20:54:42","slug":"alternative-treatments-widely-used-for-couples-attempting-to-get%c2%a0pregnant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/526297","title":{"rendered":"Alternative Treatments Widely Used For Couples Attempting To Get\u00a0Pregnant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Midwife_1961_19714074_0_0_7056808_300.jpg\" alt=\"Alternative treatments widely used for couples attempting to get pregnant \" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">An increasing number of American couples are utilizing alternative therapy options in an effort to improve their chances of conceiving a child, a new study has found. <\/p>\n<p>A research team from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), discovered that nearly one-third of California women who had difficulty getting pregnant tried acupuncture, herbal remedies or massage to complement more traditional conception strategies. <\/p>\n<p>In the study, lead author James Smith and his colleagues recruited 428 couples from eight northern California reproductive clinics and followed them over a period of 18 months, according to <i>Reuters<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>At the point of follow-up, the investigators found that 29 percent of couples reported utilizing a form of complementary and alternative medicine. A total of 22 percent underwent acupuncture treatment, nearly 18 percent used herbal therapies and 5 percent employed chiropractic massage. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;We suggest that couples struggling to achieve pregnancy are more likely to seek out any treatment that offers hope,&quot; Smith told the news source. He added that in vitro fertilization therapy costs, on average, $16,550, while acupuncture treatment only costs approximately $100 per session. <\/p>\n<p>Acupuncture may also be used to help alleviate symptoms associated with headaches, lower back pain and menstrual cramps.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19714074-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19714074\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An increasing number of American couples are utilizing alternative therapy options in an effort to improve their chances of conceiving a child, a new study has found. A research team from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), discovered that nearly one-third of California women who had difficulty getting pregnant tried acupuncture, herbal remedies or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}