Effectiveness of Abdominal Acupuncture for Patients with Obesity-Type Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: A Randomized Controlled Trial Yan-Hua Zheng, Xin-Hua Wang, Mao-Hua Lai, Hong Yao, Hua Liu, and Hong-Xia Ma. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. September 2013, 19(9): 740-745. doi:10.1089/acm.2012.0429. ABSTRACT Objective: To assess the effectiveness of abdominal acupuncture at the endocrine and metabolic level […]
Painful and Tender Muscles Dry Needling Can Reduce Myofascial Pain Related to Trigger Points Trigger points are irritable, hard “knots” within a muscle that may cause pain over a large area, leading to difficulty performing everyday tasks. When a trigger point is touched, it hurts and can also cause pain in nearby areas (see illustration). […]
Acupuncture and Neuropathic Pain Management http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/acu.2012.0943 Wol Seon Jung and Lucy Chen. Medical Acupuncture. August 2013, 25(4): 261-268. Published in Volume: 25 Issue 4: August 19, 2013 Background: Treatment of neuropathic pain remains challenging because of the difficulty in achieving adequate pain control. Objective: This review focuses on the neurobiological basis of acupuncture and clinical […]
Does the intensity of acupuncture stimulation affect functional outcomes in patients with Bell’s palsy?
Tom Blackwell Thursday, Jul. 4, 2013 As a world-class judoka, Kim Ribble-Orr weathered an extraordinary amount of adversity – not to mention battered limbs — to achieve her dream of competing in the Olympics. When a massage therapist tried to treat the headaches she suffered after a 2006 car crash with acupuncture, however, he set […]
Published: Jun 7, 2013 By Chris Kaiser , Cardiology Editor, MedPage Today Action Points Note that this randomized controlled trial performed in China demonstrated a beneficial effect of a Chinese herbal medicine, qiangxin, on NT-pro BNP levels in patients with heart failure. Be aware that the capsules are a mix of 11 herbs; the active […]
Published: May 22, 2013 | Updated: May 23, 2013 By Nancy Walsh , Staff Writer, MedPage Today Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse Planner ORLANDO — Diabetes patients with gastroparesis experienced significant relief of nausea with “needleless” acupuncture, which may have important implications for their glucose […]
Jenn Strathman, newsnet5.com Apr 5, 2013 CLEVELAND – We’re all anxious for the spring sun to shine, but with spring comes allergy season. There is a treatment you can start today that may help with all those seasonal sneezes. Spring flowers brighten the landscape and mood until the sneezing and wheezing starts leaving allergy suffers […]
Acupuncture Pins Hay Fever, but Briefly Published: Feb 18, 2013 An 8-week course of acupuncture had statistically significant but short-lived benefits for people with seasonal allergic rhinitis, researchers reported. The improvements in quality of life and use of rescue medication were small and of “uncertain” clinical significance, according to Benno Brinkhaus, MD, of Charité-University Medical […]
Allais G, De Lorenzo C, Quirico PE, Airola G, Tolardo G, Mana O, Benedetto C. Headache. 2002 Oct;42(9):855-61. PubMed Reference Abstract OBJECTIVES: In a randomized controlled trial extending over 6 months, we evaluated the effectiveness of acupuncture versus flunarizine in the prophylactic treatment of migraine without aura. METHODS: One hundred sixty women with migraines were randomly […]
Burns Volume 37, Issue 1, February 2011, Pages 117–125 Jin-Ah Lee Abstract The effects of acupuncture on healing of deep second degree burns were compared to the conventional hydrocolloid dressing, Duoderm in mice. The expression level of inflammatory protein-1α (MIP-1α) was significantly reduced in the injured skin and the number of eosinophils in blood decreased […]
FEBRUARY 17, 2011 One of the more distressing items being reported out of the developing medical catastrophe in Haiti is the lack of even rudimentary anesthesia and analgesia for the treatment of amputations and severe acute traumatic injuries. One possible strategy for treating patients in pain that is rapidly effective and has little mortality or serious […]
Autonomic Neuroscience Volume 157, Issues 1–2, 28 October 2010, Pages 38–41 Sun Kwang Kim Abstract Acupuncture is probably the most popular alternative therapy practiced in the United States, Europe and many Asian countries. It has been applied clinically for more than 5 thousand years according to the ancient oriental medical theory. A great deal of […]
Neurobiology of Disease Volume 39, Issue 3, September 2010, Pages 272–282 Doo C. Choi Abstract Here, we first demonstrated the neuroprotective effect of acupuncture after SCI. Acupuncture applied at two specific acupoints, Shuigou (GV26) and Yanglingquan (GB34) significantly alleviated apoptotic cell death of neurons and oligodendrocytes, thereby leading to improved functional recovery after SCI. Acupuncture […]
Junhua Zhang Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2010;88:915-921C. doi: 10.2471/BLT.10.076737 Introduction Acupuncture is popular in most countries, but nowhere more than in China. Because its use is so widespread, safety is an important issue that deserves close attention. Serious adverse events resulting from acupuncture, including pneumothorax, cardiac tamponade, spinal cord injury and viral hepatitis, […]
Ying Li MD, PhD Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain Volume 49, Issue 6, pages 805–816, June 2009 Abstract Objective.— To discuss the results of a multicenter randomized controlled trial of the efficacy of verum acupuncture in treating acute migraine attacks. Background.— Acupuncture has been used in China for centuries to treat migraine […]
Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D., clinical professor of surgery at Yale University recants his experiences observing acupuncture analgesia used in surgery while in China. NCCAM Distingushed Lecture – Chinese Medicine, Western Science, and Acupuncture NCCAM will hold the inaugural lecture of the Stephen E. Straus Distinguished Lecture in the Science of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Dr. […]