The Fertility Support Company works with patients receiving treatment from many top UK fertility clinics recognised by the Human Fertility and Embryology Association ( www.hfea.gov.uk).

Thorough assessments are made of your situation by the fertility clinic you attend upon first meeting, which may include checks for uterine killer cells, sperm antibodies and tracking cycles.

You will then be put on either a short or long protocol, and The Fertility Support Company will work responsively with the clinic to enhance and improve your responses.

Patients will have regular blood tests and ultrasounds done by their clinic which track the progress of their treatments, and they feed the results of these tests back to their acupuncturist at The Fertility Support Company, who will be able to respond if necessary. For example; if the endometrium is judged to be too thin or thick by the clinic, acupuncture treatment will be given. If there is not enough follicle growth, this can be stimulated further through acupuncture and the results of this will be seen between 3 and 4 days later. Our policy is only to treat where the clinic has identified a problem however, so if the judgement is made that things are progressing well, we will not adminsiter acupuncture.

Finally, what we call at The Fertility Support Company a "transfer treatment," will be given. These are a series of treatments which occur: .

While 80% of assisted reproductive procedures are successful first time after The Fertility Support Company's three month programme, transfer treatments alone can certainly improve their success. A recent German study showed improvement in IVF outcome, for example, when two sessions of acupuncture were added on the day of embryo transfer. The pregnancy outcome revealed an improvement from 26% to 42% in each of the 80 patients who were randomised to treatment with or without acupuncture in the same treatment programme.