1 centre · West Midlands
Fine needles at specific points, used for pain and wellbeing. Birmingham's wellness offering is shaped by its business visitors as much as its residents.
One centre currently offers acupuncture in Birmingham, verified by our team. Listed prices run from £42 to £55, with an hour typically around £55. Visits are priced for 45 minutes or 60 minutes. It welcomes guests on its own premises. It is in Edgbaston. Besides English, the team also speaks Urdu.
Acupuncture involves inserting very fine, single-use needles into specific points on the body, leaving them in place for 20 to 30 minutes. It comes from traditional Chinese medicine; Western medical acupuncture, practised by physiotherapists and some GPs, uses the same technique based on modern understanding of anatomy and pain. Most people feel a brief tingle or dull ache rather than pain.
NICE recommends acupuncture as an option for chronic primary pain and for preventing tension-type headaches and migraines, and it is available on the NHS in some areas, mainly through GP practices and pain clinics. Evidence for many other uses claimed for it is weak. Wellness centres usually offer it alongside massage and other therapies, and some run lower-cost community acupuncture in a shared room.
A first appointment with a full consultation costs about £50 to £90 and follow-ups £40 to £70; community clinics charge £20 to £35. Choose a practitioner registered with the British Acupuncture Council or a regulated health professional, and tell them if you are pregnant, have a bleeding disorder, take blood thinners or have a pacemaker.
Read the full guide to acupuncture — what it involves, who it suits and what it costs. Also known as acupuncture treatment, Chinese acupuncture and medical acupuncture.
The City Centre and the hotels around the canals sell spa days and day passes to conference guests and shoppers, and the large hotel and country-club spas near the airport and the NEC draw people from across the West Midlands for full spa days with lunch. Solihull has become a wellness destination of its own, with leisure clubs and spas offering memberships alongside treatments. The Jewellery Quarter is the creative end, with independent yoga and Pilates studios, a social sauna and small holistic practices in converted workshops.
More on spas and wellness in Birmingham as a whole — areas, pricing and how booking works locally.
For acupuncture specifically, the centres listed here are in Edgbaston . You can also browse everything in Birmingham .
Listed prices run from £42 to £55, depending on the length of the visit and what is included. An hour typically costs around £55.
Not at the moment. The one centre offering acupuncture in Birmingham welcomes guests on their own premises only.
The one centre here is in Edgbaston.
