ACC Acupuncture

First, the injured person needs to visit a treatment provider either a GP, doctor, physiotherapist or hospital. The provider or hospital do an assessment and lodge an ACC 45 injury claim form. ACC will receive the form and decide on cover, if the cover is accepted the injured person can receive treatment from an acc registered acupuncturist. With acupuncture, you are allocated up to 12 treatments over a period of 12 weeks from the date of the first acupuncture treatment. With the acc injury cover, you can see other providers such as a physiotherapist, chiropractor, or osteopath this will not affect your allocated acupuncture treatments.

ACC funds two sets of treatment modalities within acupuncture services, conventional therapies and adjunct therapies. Conventional therapies are comprised of traditional acupuncture, western acupuncture, electroacupuncture, and auricular acupuncture; the adjunct therapies include cupping, Gua Sha scraping, tuina massage, and moxibustion.