General Info

The Medical Acupuncture Service, offered by Boston Children's Hospital's Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, helps children and young adults manage their acute and chronic pain through a procedure called acupuncture. Acupuncture is a form of traditional Chinese medicine that dates back more than 2,500 years. Its performed by professionally trained, licensed acupuncturists who insert tiny, hair-thin needles through the skin into underlying tissues at strategic points in order to ease pain and treat many diseases.