Will acupuncture help with trochanteric bursitis?

Quite likely: Acupuncture can be very effective for this.

Maybe : But probably not as much steroid injection done by a skilled provider.

Yes: Treatment is quite remarkable. Auricular (ear) acupuncture, kb1 (interosseous membrane stimulation) or locally placed needles can cause dramatic improvement.

No: In spite of hundreds of studies - acupuncture has no role in medicine.

100% yes!!!: 30yrs in medicine 15 yrs using acupuncture ... Yes period. Bursitis is about alignment of the hip and leg. The best therapy is myofascial tissue release therapy is on a spectrum from simple stretching, yoga, massage, chiro adjustments, john f. Barnes unwinding, hands-on manipulations, acupuncture, gunn-ims, dry needling to finally travell trigger point injections.

1st, Do no harm: As long as patient isn't on a blood thinner, which might cause bruising, needling that area has little potential side-effects. It is harder to believe that accupuncture won't work consider it is used to provide pain relief during a cesarian section, and surgical removal of thyroid. It has a powerful effect. Not understanding where tylenol (acetaminophen) works doesn't stop us from using it.