Acupuncture is a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practice that uses very fine, sterile needles placed at specific points on the body. Your acupuncturist will consider your individual signs, symptoms and overall presentation, to help select and combine acupuncture points in a way that is tailored to you. While TCM provides the framework for selecting points, contemporary research continues to explore how these points interact with the nervous system and the body's regulatory processes. In this way, acupuncture can be understood as utilizing specific points to support the ways the body responds, adapts and recovers.