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Welcome to our Chinese medicine and acupuncture research news pages. We add to the content of these pages continuously as more research news comes in. Browse through the complete archive below or use the category links on the right.

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TREATING PELVIC AND BACK PAIN IN PREGNANCY

Categories: Pregnancy & labour

A systematic review using the Cochrane database has assessed the effects of interventions for preventing and treating back and pelvic pain in pregnancy. Authors searched the Cochrane database for randomised controlled trials of any treatment used to prevent or reduce the incidence or severity of back or pelvic pain in pregnancy. Eight studies (1305 participants from five countries) were included i ...

ACUPUNCTURE PROMISING FOR PELVIC PAIN

Categories: Pregnancy & labour

A systematic review of the effectiveness of acupuncture in treating pelvic and back pain in pregnancy has found promising results. Two small trials on mixed pelvic/back pain and one large high-quality trial on pelvic pain met the inclusion criteria. The authors concluded that the current evidence, although limited, supports the use of acupuncture in treating the conditions. (Acupuncture for pelvic ...

ACUPUNCTURE EFFECTIVE FOR BREECH CORRECTION

Categories: Pregnancy & labour

A systematic review from Holland has concluded that acupuncture-type interventions (moxibustion, acupuncture, or electro-acupuncture) on Zhiyin BL 67 are effective in correcting breech presentation, compared with expectant management. Of 65 citations retrieved from various databases, six RCTs and three cohort studies fulfilled the reviewer's inclusion criteria. In the RCTs the pooled proportion of ...

ACUPUNCTURE FOR PELVIC GIRDLE PAIN (PGP) DURING PREGNANCY

Categories: Pregnancy & labour

Swedish researchers have compared acupuncture with non-penetrating sham acupuncture in women with pelvic girdle pain (PGP) during pregnancy. In a randomised double-blinded controlled trial 115 pregnant women with PGP were randomly allocated to standard treatment plus acupuncture or to standard treatment plus non-penetrating sham acupuncture for eight weeks. After treatment, median pain decreased i ...

ACUPUNCTURE SHORTENS LABOUR

Categories: Pregnancy & labour

A Canadian team has investigated the effectiveness of acupuncture for the initiation of labour in a prospective pilot RCT. Sixteen pregnant women at term were randomly assigned to receive acupuncture either at sites reported to cause onset of labour or at nearby sham sites. The results showed a difference in intervention to delivery interval of 62 hours in favour of the treatment group. Women in t ...

ACUPUNCTURE IN LABOUR IMPROVES BABIES CONDITION AT BIRTH

Categories: Pregnancy & labour

Researchers in Denmark have compared acupuncture with transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation (TENS) and analgesic medication for pain relief during labour. 607 healthy women in labour at term were randomised to receive acupuncture, TENS or analgesics. Pain scores were comparable in all groups, but use of pharmacological and invasive methods was found to be significantly lower in the acupuncture ...

ACUPUNCTURE RELIEVES DYSPEPSIA IN PREGNANCY

Categories: Pregnancy & labour

Acupuncture may help alleviate dyspepsia during pregnancy, according to a Brazilian team. Forty-two pregnant women with dyspepsia were randomly allocated to receive acupuncture or conventional treatment alone. Significant improvements in symptoms were found in the acupuncture group, who also used less medication. (Acupuncture for dyspepsia in pregnancy: a prospective, randomised, controlled study. ...

AURICULAR ACUPUNCTURE FOR LOW BACK & PELVIC PAIN IN PREGNANCY

Categories: Pregnancy & labour

One week of continuous auricular acupuncture decreases the pain and disability experienced by women with pregnancy-related low back and posterior pelvic pain. In a randomised controlled trial, American clinicians randomly assigned pregnant women to continuous auricular acupuncture, sham auricular acupuncture or a waiting list control. All participants were monitored for two weeks. Participants in ...

GINGER STOPS NAUSEA AND VOMITING IN PREGNANCY

Categories: Pregnancy & labour

Ginger (Sheng Jiang) is an effective remedy for nausea and vomiting during pregnancy. A single blind clinical trial carried out in Iran randomly assigned 67 pregnant women to receive either 1000 mg ginger in capsules or placebo capsules for four days. Ginger users demonstrated a higher rate of nausea improvement than placebo users (85% versus 56%). The decrease in vomiting among ginger users was a ...

ACUPUNCTURE & TENNIS ELBOW

Categories: Tennis Elbow

Of 55 patients with chronic lateral epicondylitis, 23 were treated with real acupuncture and 22 received sham acupuncture, all receiving 10 treatments, with two treatments per week. At two weeks and 2 months after the end of treatment, there were significant reductions in pain intensity and improvements in the function of the arm and in maximal strength in both treatment groups. At 2-weeks all the ...

ACUPUNCTURE AND TENNIS ELBOW

Categories: Tennis Elbow

A study on the treatment of tennis elbow using only Yanglingquan GB-34 on the affected side reports that most patients obtained pain relief of 70% (mean pain relief 55%). The results were significantly higher than in a placebo group treated by light pressure at Feishu BL-13. The results were assessed blindly immediately after treatment. (Molsberger A, Hill E, British Journal of Rheumatology, 33: 1 ...

ACUPUNCTURE AND TENNIS ELBOW

Categories: Tennis Elbow

A German placebo-controlled single-blind trial into the treatment of tennis elbow compared a single-needle traditionally selected treatment with a placebo non-penetrative treatment. Pain relief occurred in 55.8% of the treatment group and 15% in the control group. 79.2% of the treatment group reported pain relief of at least 50% after only one treatment. (Molsberger, A. et. al The analgesic effect ...

ACUPUNCTURE AND CORTICOSTEROIDS

Categories: Tennis Elbow

A study carried out in the North of England suggests that patients with tennis elbow who receive acupuncture immediately before injection of corticosteroids respond to much lower doses of corticosteroids than those who do not receive acupuncture first (Acupuncture in Medicine Nov. 1997 Vol. 15 No2, p77).

TENNIS ELBOW & ACUPUNCTURE

Categories: Tennis Elbow

In a study carried out at Hanover Medical School, 45 patients with chronic lateral epicondylitis were each given two acupuncture treatments, real or sham, every week for 5 weeks. 2 weeks after the end of treatment the group who received real acupuncture demonstrated significantly more improvement in strength, pain intensity and arm function than the sham group, although the improvement was limited ...

ACUPUNCTURE FOR TENNIS ELBOW PAIN

Categories: Tennis Elbow

A systematic review of published studies on the effect of acupuncture on lateral elbow (tennis elbow) pain has concluded that "there is strong evidence suggesting that acupuncture is effective in short-term pain relief for patients with lateral epicondyle pain". The studies reviewed were all randomised or quasi-randomised and acupuncture was the only intervention used in the treatment gr ...

ACUPUNCTURE EASES TMJ PAIN

Categories: Temperomandibular / Jaw

A double-blind randomised controlled trial followed twenty-seven patients suffering from temporomandibular joint myofascial pain (TMJ/MP) who were assigned to receive either real acupuncture or a sham acupuncture intervention. Real acupuncture was found to have a greater influence than sham acupuncture on clinical outcome measures of TMJ/MP and changes in the majority of measures reached a level o ...

Chinese medicine for temperomandibular joint problems

Categories: Temperomandibular / Jaw

Chinese medicine (TCM) was demonstrated to be significantly more effective for temperomandibular joint disorders than speciality care (SC) in a study of 110 women randomised to receive one or the other. TCM consisted of individualised acupuncture, herbs, tuina and relaxation (20 visits over four months). SC consisted of bite splint, education, massage and pharmacotherapy. Patients improved in both ...

Acupuncture & temperomandibular dysfunction

Categories: Temperomandibular / Jaw

An audit of 60 patients with temperomandibular joint dysfunction was compiled from the practices of 15 dentists who were applying for the diploma of the British Dental Acupuncture Society. The mean age of the patients (predominantly female) was 40.6 years, and the average duration of the disorder was 32 months. The patients received a mean of 3.4 treatments (each lasting 12 minutes). Treatment con ...

TCM BETTER THAN USUAL CARE FOR TEMPOROMANDIBULAR PAIN

Categories: Temperomandibular / Jaw

A pilot study carried out in the USA has assessed the feasibility of studying whole systems of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and naturopathic medicine (NM) as treatments for temporomandibular disorders (TMD). The study compared TCM and NM with state-of-the-art specialty care (SC) for TMD in 160 women (25-55 years of age) attending a specialty clinic. The TCM and NM intervention protocols were ...

ACUPUNCTURE & FROZEN SHOULDER

Categories: Shoulder

In a Hong Kong study, 35 patients with frozen shoulder were randomly assigned to an exercise group or an exercise plus acupuncture group. Mobility, strength and pain were assessed (blind) at outset, after 6 weeks and at a 20-week follow-up. The acupuncture protocol consisted of deep (2.5 cun) contralateral needing of the extra point Zhongping (1 cun inferior to Zusanli ST-36, midway between the ti ...