Medical Acupuncture and Dry Needling Training for Registered Healthcare Professionals
Advance your clinical skills, build specialist expertise, and deliver better patient outcomes with postgraduate and foundation-level training designed by industry-leading practitioners.
Clinically Focused Teaching
Evidence-Based Curriculum
Designed for Healthcare
University and Postgraduate Standard
Our Training Programmes
Elevate Your Clinical Practice
Whether you are looking to acquire safe, foundational needling skills, develop advanced clinical specialisms, or study fully online at your own pace, Steve Bailey Acupuncture Academy provides flexible, university-standard pathways designed to fit your professional timeline. Explore our learning categories below to find the clinical training programme that matches your career goals.
Who are our courses for?
- Healthcare professionals: Add acupuncture, dry needling, and cupping therapy to your MSK toolkit
- CPD learners: short online courses, webinars, books, newsletters, memberships
- Career changers: Train for a career as a professional acupuncturist
- Podiatrists: Lower-limb focused acupuncture pathway
Foundation, Postgraduate Certificate and Diploma Programmes
Designed for registered healthcare professionals seeking to safely, confidently, and legally integrate acupuncture, dry needling and dry cupping therapy into their clinical practice. These comprehensive foundation, postgraduate certificate and diploma programmes combine theoretical rigour with hands-on practical skill acquisition, allowing you to treat common musculoskeletal conditions, digestive, urogenital, menstrual, infertility pathologies, and sports injuries immediately upon completion.
Diploma in Acupuncture
Designed for learners without a medical qualification who wish to train as acupuncture practitioner, this programme builds essential knowledge and practical skills in acupuncture theory, point selection, and advanced needling techniques.
Postgraduate Diploma in Medical Acupuncture
Designed for regulated medical professionals, this programme helps you broaden your skills and enhance patient care. It is ideal for healthcare practitioners looking to develop their clinical practice or explore a new career direction.
Foundation in Medical Acupuncture and Dry Needling
Designed for healthcare professionals, this course introduces you to the essential needling skills and evidence-informed understanding needed to support the treatment of acute and chronic musculoskeletal conditions.
Foundation in Podiatric Medical Acupuncture
Therapeutic Massage, Joint Mobilisation and Exercise Rehabilitation of the Foot and Ankle
Professional Cupping Therapy Certificate
Specialist Postgraduate Courses
If you want to build your clinical acupuncture skills and specialise in sports injuries, performance enhancement for recreational or elite athletes, or women’s health, these postgraduate certificate courses can help take your practice to the next level. They will help you develop a clear area of expertise and differentiate yourself from other practitioners.
Postgraduate Certificate in Acupuncture for Sports Injuries and Performance Enhancement
Postgraduate Certificate in Acupuncture for Women's Health
Online Learning Modules
Expand your diagnostic and treatment capabilities on your own schedule with our targeted, fully self-paced online modules. Specifically built to address isolated clinical challenges, these modules provide step-by-step, evidence-based assessment and treatment protocols that you can immediately apply in your daily practice to accelerate healing and resolve acute or chronic patient pain.
How to Assess, Diagnose, and Treat Acute and Chronic Lower Back Pain with Acupressure and Acupuncture
Plantar Fasciitis Assessment, Diagnosis and Treatment
How to Treat Acute and Chronic Pain with Acupuncture
How to Treat Common Foot Disorders with Acupuncture
Assessment, Diagnosis and Treatment of Lateral Ankle Sprain
Specialist Clinical Membership
Mastery in Lower Limb MSK and Biomechanics
Advance your clinical reasoning and confidence with the Lower Limb MSK and Biomechanics Mastery Membership.This ongoing monthly programme is designed for podiatrists, physiotherapists, sports therapists and MSK clinicians who want to move beyond basic protocols and develop a deeper understanding of lower limb pathomechanics. Build the skills to assess more accurately, treat more effectively, and improve patient outcomes in complex lower limb presentations.
- Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Training: Gain immediate access to advanced online modules spanning medical acupuncture, shockwave therapy, clinical rehabilitation, lower limb biomechanics, custom orthotics prescription writing, and elite sports performance strategies.
- Direct Mentoring and Peer Accountability: Step out of clinical isolation with interactive, live Zoom mentoring sessions led directly by Steve Bailey, allowing you to discuss complex case studies and refine your diagnostic precision.
- Hands-On Workshop Access: Seamlessly bridge the gap between evidence-based theory and daily treatment application with exclusive member discounts on physical practical workshops held at our clinical training facility.
Setting the Standard in Clinical Education
Why Train With the Academy?
Choosing where to advance your postgraduate skills is a vital career decision. At the Steve Bailey Acupuncture Academy, we bridge the gap between contemporary science and clinical reality. Our programmes are structured to meet the high professional standard expected by medical boards while ensuring you gain immediate, safe, and practical skills to transform your patient care.
- Evidence-Based Acupuncture Training: Every technique taught is backed by contemporary scientific research, clinical efficacy studies, and safety protocols.
- Designed for Healthcare Professionals: Our cohort includes physiotherapists, osteopaths, chiropractors, podiatrists, sports therapists and nurses, creating a high-calibre peer learning environment.
- Practical, Clinically Focused Teaching: We focus on hands-on practical experience, giving you ready-to-use techniques that you can implement in your clinic the very next day.
- Diploma, Postgraduate and Foundation-Level Training Options: From foundational access to advanced university-standard postgraduate qualifications, we support your learning at every career milestone.
- Delivered by an Experienced Clinician and Educator: Rest easy knowing you are learning from a highly active, senior clinical practitioner with decades of academic lecturing experience.
Meet Your Lead Educator
Clinical Expertise You Can Trust
Steve Bailey is the Principal of Steve Bailey Acupuncture Academy and Managing Director of the Foot, Knee, and Back Clinic. As an active clinician, educator, and researcher in medical acupuncture and musculoskeletal (MSK) medicine, his career spans private clinical practice, postgraduate teaching, and healthcare CPD delivery.
- Double-Qualified Clinical Expert: Steve is a dual-practising Chartered Physiotherapist, Podiatrist, and Acupuncture Practitioner, running a busy clinical practice in Nottingham.
- Academic Background and Credentials: He holds an MSc in Acupuncture, an MSc in Lower Limb Biomechanics, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE).
- Renowned CPD Educator: Steve has taught on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at Nottingham and Coventry University and previously delivered core foundation and advanced acupuncture training for the Acupuncture Association of Chartered Physiotherapists (AACP).
- Sports Injuries and Performance Specialisation: He has spent years researching acupuncture's physiological effects on pain, inflammation, healing, and recovery, treating athletes and clinical teams performing at national and international levels.
Elevate Your Clinical Scope and Patient Care
Take the Next Step in Your Professional Development
Ready to expand your diagnostic tools, stand out from other practitioners, and specialise your treatment approach? Our online and practical training platforms are ready when you are.