Category: Acupuncture
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Acupuncture Useful for Migraine Prophylaxis
Pauline Anderson February 24, 2017 “True” acupuncture reduces migraine frequency, number of days with migraine, and pain intensity compared with “sham” acupuncture and being wait-listed for acupuncture, a randomized trial shows. These are some of the “several benefits” of acupuncture for patients with headache shown in this study, said author Fanrong Liang, MD, Acupuncture and…
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Acupuncture Lessens Migraine Attacks in Chinese Study
by Kristina Fiore, Associate Editor, MedPage Today February 20, 2017 Acupuncture may be helpful for migraine prevention, according to a randomized controlled trial from China. The trial included both real and sham acupuncture, as well as a wait-list control group. Over 16 weeks, real acupuncture treatment was associated with a greater reduction in migraine attacks…
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Acupuncture Cuts Crying in Colicky Infants
by Molly Walker Staff Writer, MedPage Today January 16, 2017 Acupuncture as a treatment for infants with colic was associated with both a reduction in total colic-related crying time and a reduction in the number of infants who met the criteria for colic following treatment, a small randomized trial found. Infants receiving acupuncture showed significant…
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Acupuncture For Chronic Pain and Depression In Primary Care
In this book, they found that acupuncture was more effective than usual care and sham acupuncture for chronic pain, that it was one of the more clinically effective physical therapies for osteoarthritis and that it showed benefits in the treatment of depression. ~ Dr. Broussard Abstract Background: There has been an increase in the utilisation…
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Acupuncture for Depression: The Mechanism Underlying Its Therapeutic Effect
This is the title of a study published in Medical Acupuncture. The authors looked up different underlying chemical pathways known to be involved with depression, and they found that acupuncture treatment actually seems to affect them, and may be why some people with depression respond to treatment. To cite this article: Muthmainah and Nurwati Ida. Medical…
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The clinical effect of acupuncture therapy in patients with gouty arthritis
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine , 11/01/2016 Lu WW, et al. The aim of this study is to evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of acupuncture therapy in the treatment of acute gouty arthritis. In context of the findings,, the authors illustrate that acupuncture is an effective and safe therapy for patients with gouty arthritis.…
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Acupuncture Has Possible Role in Promoting Cartilage Repair in Knee Osteoarthritis
In this article, the authors conclude that acupuncture has a clinical effect on knee osteoarthritis which is superior compared with physiotherapy, and hint the possible roles of acupuncture in promoting cartilage repairing. ~ Dr. Broussard Influence of acupuncture in treatment of knee osteoarthritis and cartilage repairing Am J Transl Res. 2016; 8(9): 3995–4002. Published online…
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Acupuncture and splinting helps carpal tunnel syndrome
Electroacupuncture and splinting versus splinting alone to treat carpal tunnel syndrome: a randomized controlled trial CMAJ September 6, 2016 vol. 188 no. 12 First published June 6, 2016, doi: 10.1503/cmaj.151003 Vincent C.H. Chung, PhD Abstract Background: The effectiveness of acupuncture for managing carpal tunnel syndrome is uncertain, particularly in patients already receiving conventional treatments (e.g.,…
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Ear Acupuncture May East Inflammation in Chronic Low Back Pain
I was reading on a study published in 2014 in the journal Medical Acupuncture where they were trying to figure out how ear acupuncture helps low back pain. They thought it may have to do with inflammation, so they did blood tests for inflammation markers before treatment, 30 minutes after the first treatment, and every week for…
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Electrotherapy and acupuncture linked with decreased, delayed opioid use after TKA Tedesco D, et al. JAMA Surg. 2017;doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2017.2872. August 16, 2017 Investigators found electrotherapy and acupuncture after total knee arthroplasty correlated with a decrease in and later use of opioids. Researchers performed a systematic review and found 5,509 studies of nonpharmacological interventions for postoperative pain…