Welcome to Marchand Orthopedic Acupuncture Acupuncture is best known worldwide as traditional approaches that have been used for thousands of years relating to Qi and meridians. While acupuncture serves as a highly effective and regular form of treatment for millions of people to this day-we realize that there are still many who are skeptical and do not view acupuncture as a legitimate form of medicine as compared to the practices and methodologies of western medicine.