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Acupuncture for fibromyalgia
Categories: Fibromyaigia, Miscellaneous
A systematic review of TCM therapies for treatment of fibromyalgia has concluded that they appear to be effective. The authors looked at twenty-five RCTs (1516 participants) of which ten were eligible for meta-analysis. Acupuncture reduced pain scores and number of tender points compared with conventional medication, however it showed no significant effect on pain reduction compared with sham acup ...
Acupuncture can improve endothelial dysfunction in hypertension
Categories: Stroke, Hypertension
A Korean study has shown that acupuncture can improve endothelial dysfunction in patients with hypertension. The pilot, double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover trial randomly assigned 15 patients with essential hypertension to a sequence of four acupuncture treatment phases, each lasting 15 minutes, with a seven-day washout period in between. Needles were inserted at bilateral Zusanli ST-36; Ne ...
Acupuncture improves exercise tolerance in heart failure patients
Categories: Heart / Cardiac
Acupuncture can improve the exercise tolerance of patients with congestive heart failure (CHF), potentially by improving skeletal muscle function. Seventeen patients with CHF, all receiving optimised heart failure medication, were randomised into a verum acupuncture (VA) and placebo acupuncture (PA) group. The maximum distance that patients were capable of walking in six minutes increased signific ...
Acupuncture increases muscle strength
Categories: Miscellaneous disorders, Acupuncture research
A single acupuncture treatment can increase isometric quadriceps strength, according to German authors. Thirty-three recreational athletes were randomised to receive acupuncture, sham acupuncture (needling at non-acupuncture points) and placebo laser acupuncture (deactivated laser device) in a double-blind crossover fashion, with one week between trials. The difference from baseline of the mean ch ...
Acupuncture calms burning mouth syndrome
Categories: Miscellaneous disorders, Nose and mouth
Acupuncture can significantly reduce burning mouth syndrome, a chronic pathology of unknown aetiopathogenesis, probably due to its influence on oral microcirculation. In an observational study carried out by Italian investigators, thirty patients were treated with TCM acupuncture for three weeks. Oral microcirculation was observed using videocapillaroscopy at three times: in the absence of acupunc ...
Acupuncture reduces hot flushes due to prostate cancer treatment
Categories: Cancer, Male disorders
Acupuncture can produce meaningful improvement in hot flush frequency for men undergoing androgen ablation therapy (AAT) for prostate cancer. In an observational study carried out in the USA, 22 patients underwent electroacupuncture biweekly for four weeks, then weekly for six weeks, using a predefined treatment plan. After four weeks, 41% of patients had a >50% reduction in the hot flush score ...
Acupuncture improves sleep apnoea
Categories: Insomnia/sleep disorders, Respiratory disorders
Brazilian researchers have shown in a pilot study that acupuncture can improve the sleep pattern of patients with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA). Forty patients were randomly allocated to manual acupuncture (MA) treatment, 10 Hz electroacupuncture (EA) treatment, 2 Hz EA treatment, or a no-treatment control group. Apnoea scores and number of nocturnal respiratory events decreased significantly in ...
Acupuncture benefits cancer patients
Categories: Cancer
Acupuncture treatment produces measurable benefits in symptom reduction and quality of life (QOL) for patients with advanced ovarian and breast cancer, according to US researchers. In a pilot, single-armed prospective trial, 40 patients with advanced cancer were enrolled to receive 12 acupuncture sessions over eight weeks, with follow-up at weeks 9 and 12. Among all 32 assessed patients, there was ...
Acupuncture relieves diabetic peripheral neuropathy
Categories: Diabetes, Neurological
A Korean pilot study has provided evidence that acupuncture may be useful for the treatment of diabetic peripheral neuropathy. The study compared 42 cases treated with acupuncture with 21 cases exposed to sham acupuncture and observed the effects on nerve conduction velocity and a variety of subjective symptoms associated with diabetic peripheral neuropathy. Three of the six measures relating to m ...
Acupuncture improves dry eyes
Categories: Eye disorders
Acupuncture is as effective as artificial tear therapy (ATC) at reducing the symptoms of xerophthalmia (dry eyes), but the effects of acupuncture last longer. Chinese researchers compared 44 patients who were divided into two groups; one received ten sessions of acupuncture, while the other received ATC over a 21-day period. One hour after completion of treatment, no significant difference in symp ...
Acupuncture beneficial after neck surgery for cancer
Categories: Cancer
Acupuncture has the potential to benefit cancer patients who have had neck surgery, according to an American study. Fifty-eight patients with chronic pain or dysfunction attributed to neck dissection were randomly assigned to weekly acupuncture or usual care (physical therapy, analgesia, and/or anti-inflammatory drugs) for four weeks. Significant reductions in pain, dysfunction, and xerostomia wer ...
Acupuncture for post-operative gastroparesis
Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders
Chinese researchers have shown that acupuncture can improve post-operative gastroparesis (PGS), a common complication of abdominal surgery, in which the motility of the stomach is either abnormal or absent. Sixty-three patients were randomised to either acupuncture or metoclopramide (the standard drug treatment for PGS). Patients in the acupuncture group were needled once daily at Zusanli ST-36 an ...
Acupuncture relieves menopausal symptoms
Categories: Menopausal syndrome
A Brazilian group has found acupuncture to be effective in decreasing hot flushes and menopause symptom scores in postmenopausal women. In a randomised, single-blind, placebo-controlled, cross-over trial, 81 patients were assigned to two groups: Group 1 received 12 months of acupuncture, followed by six months of sham-acupuncture, while Group 2 received six months of sham-acupuncture, then 12 mont ...
Acupuncturists' behaviour affects pain
Categories: Knee, Acupuncture research
The way acupuncturists interact with patients has significant effects on pain reduction. In an American randomised controlled trial, acupuncturists were trained to interact in one of two communication styles that conveyed either 'high' or 'neutral' expectations of treatment outcomes. 455 patients with knee osteoarthritis were assigned to one of three groups over six weeks: waiting list, 'high', or ...
Pre-treatment expectations don't predict outcomes for back pain
Categories: Back, Acupuncture research
The relationship between patients' expectations of acupuncture and their outcomes may be more complex than previously believed. When US investigators analysed data from a randomised trial of acupuncture for chronic back pain, they found that pre-treatment expectations and preferences for acupuncture were not predictive of treatment outcomes. 477 acupuncture-naïve participants with chronic low bac ...
Acupuncture reduces stress of embryo transfer
Categories: Infertility
Women receiving acupuncture on the day of ET perceive less stress, which may play a role in improving their chances of becoming pregnant. In an observational, prospective, cohort study, American investigators studied 57 infertile patients undergoing IVF or ICSI. Patients underwent ET with or without acupuncture as part of their standard clinical care. 64.7% of women who received acupuncture achiev ...
Acupuncture equal to placebo for embryo transfer
Categories: Infertility
A large Danish randomised controlled trial has concluded that acupuncture administered in relation to embryo transfer (ET) has no greater effect on the outcome of IVF and or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) than placebo needling. 635 patients undergoing IVF or ICSI were randomised to either TCM acupuncture or placebo acupuncture using a validated placebo needle. Ongoing pregnancy rates were ...
Acupuncture effective alternative for shoulder pain
Categories: Shoulder
A large pragmatic randomised trial has found that acupuncture is an effective alternative to conventional orthopaedic treatment for chronic shoulder pain (CSP). The German Randomized Acupuncture trial for chronic Shoulder Pain (GRASP) studied 424 patients with an average visual analogue scale (VAS) pain score of 50mm, who were randomly assigned to receive six weeks of Chinese acupuncture (verum), ...
Acupuncture switches off brain's pain regions
Categories: Acupuncture, Comment
Recent research into how acupuncture affects the brain has improved our understanding of the complex neural mechanisms involved in the procedure and may lead to wider acceptance of the treatment by mainstream medicine.
Scientists from the UK's University of York and Hull York Medical school, working with colleagues at University College London and the University of Southampton, needled the acupun ...
Acupuncture helps with painful side-effects of cancer drug
Categories: Cancer, Miscellaneous
Acupuncture may help to relieve the joint pain and stiffness that are a common side-effect of the use of aromatase inhibitors (AI) that suppress oestrogen production in women with breast cancer. US researchers conducted a study of 43 postmenopausal women with early breast cancer who were being treated with AI and experiencing arthralgia. They were randomised to receive true acupuncture (TA - auric ...
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