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Qigong can improve balance in healthy young women
Categories: Qigong
Spanish researchers have found that practising qigong can improve balance in healthy young women.
Acupuncture for back and pelvic pain during pregnancy
A Cochrane Database systematic review has concluded that current evidence supports acupuncture as a treatment for pelvic and back pain in pregnancy.
Acupuncture reduces medical costs of brain injury
Categories: Miscellaneous disorders, Neurological
A retrospective cohort study from a Taiwanese research group suggests that acupuncture treatment results in reduced use of medical services by patients who experience traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Acupuncture provides no additional benefit in subacute stroke
Categories: Stroke
A multi-centre RCT carried out in China has found that adding acupuncture to conventional treatment does not result in any additional benefit for patients with subacute stroke.
Ear acupressure helps with pain of knee surgery
Applying auricular acupressure (AA) in the peri-operative period of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) can alleviate post-operative pain, decrease opioid consumption and promote early rehabilitation, say Chinese clinicians.
Acupuncture treats sexual side-effects of antidepressants
Categories: Psychological / emotional
Acupuncture has a potential role in treating the sexual side-effects of antidepressant medications, suggest researchers from Canada who carried out a pilot study.
Electro-acupuncture normalises hormone levels in women with ovarian insufficiency
Categories: Gynaecology, Infertility
A small Chinese study suggests that electro-acupuncture (EA) can normalise hormone levels and induce menstruation in women with primary ovarian insufficiency (POI - a syndrome characterised by amenorrhoea, sex steroid deficiency and elevated gonadotr ...
Acupuncture helps with pain due to degeneration of cervical vertebrae
Categories: Neck
Patients with upper extremity pain and paraesththesia due to cervical spondylotic radiculopathy (CSR) can benefit from acupuncture treatment. In a pilot study carried out in Japan, 15 subjects diagnosed with CSR and upper extremity pain and/or paraesthesia were treated with acupuncture once a week for four weeks at up to 10 sites in the cervical paraspinal region centred on the affected area. A si ...
Acupuncture improves sleep for psychiatric patients
Categories: Psychological / emotional
A small study from Hong Kong has found that acupuncture may improve sleep quality in elderly patients with dementia.
Cosmetic acupuncture improves facial elasticity
Categories: Miscellaneous disorders, Acupuncture research
Facial cosmetic acupuncture (FCA) results in improvement of objective measures of facial elasticity, a Korean pilot study suggests.
Acupuncture reduces blood pressure in medicated hypertensive patients
Categories: Hypertension
Patients with high blood pressure who are taking anti-hypertensive medication may benefit from adjunctive acupuncture treatment, according to a small study carried out in Turkey. Investigators studied 34 patients who had been on anti-hypertensive drug therapy for at least 24 months and who were experiencing side-effects such as fatigue, dizziness, weakness, headache, joint pain, sleeping problems, ...
Chinese herbs reduce inflammatory markers in Sjogren's syndrome
Categories: Miscellaneous disorders
Chinese herbal medicine can alleviate disease activity in primary Sjogren's syndrome (pSS) patients.
Acupuncture as good as NSAIDs for dysmenorrhoea
Categories: Gynaecology, Gynaecological
Acupuncture is as effective as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) for patients with dysmenorrhoea, Turkish researchers report.
Electro-acupuncture as effective as drugs for depression
Categories: Psychological / emotional
Electro-acupuncture (EA) is as effective for depression as the drug fluoxetine, according to Chinese researchers. Seventy-five patients with depressive disorder (DD) were treated with either fluoxetine or acupuncture five times per week for six weeks. EA and fluoxetine were found to have similar curative effects, but EA had a faster onset of action, better response rate and better improvement rate ...
Acupuncture helps with pain relief after heart surgery
Categories: Heart / Cardiac, Post-operative
Acupuncture can lead to significant pain reduction and improvement in lung function in patients who have had sternotomy for heart surgery.
Acupuncture improves paediatric asthma
Categories: Babies & children / paediatrics, Respiratory disorders
A prospective, randomised trial carried out in Denmark has found that acupuncture can reduce asthma symptoms and medication use in preschool children.
Acupuncture more effective for knee osteoarthritis
Acupuncture should be considered to be one of the most effective treatments for short-term alleviation of knee pain from osteoarthritis (OA), according to a network meta-analysis of randomised controlled studies by UK authors.
Empathetic consultations soothe patients' pain
Categories: Acupuncture research, Professional
Patient-centred interviewing techniques don't just put patients more at ease, they can change the brain's stress response and increase pain tolerance, according to an American research team.
Mindfulness can ease inflammation
Categories: Qigong, Lifestyle research
People with chronic inflammatory conditions - such as rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease - which are made worse by stress could benefit from practicing mindfulness meditation, according to a study by US scientists. The new study was designed to pinpoint the benefits specifically due to mindfulness meditation practice, by controlling for the effect of other therapeutic mechanisms, ...
As tigers go extinct, Chinese medicine switches to lions
Categories: Herbal medicine, General discussion
As tiger populations in the wild continue to dwindle towards extinction, it seems that attention is turning towards lion bones as replacements for the Chinese medicine trade.
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