Tag: Acupuncture and Stress
Hypertension and Stress Levels: HRV Ro.La. edition
More data from recent patients. This is some nice preliminary data from a patient being treated for hypertension. I’m including the same data as in the previous blog post, ie complexity and parasympathetic activity and sympathetic activity. His blood pressure has remained under control, though it’s early yet.
Read MoreAlternating Auricular Vagal Stimulation, HRV Data: De. Bo edition
I haven’t been sharing much data lately, just due to other projects and travel. Here is some data from a patient who values electrical ear stimlulation that provides increased vagal activity, ie increased “rest and digest” and has a unit at home to use. Though she’s not gotten around to use it much recently, we…
Read MoreHRV and Acupuncture: Sino-Austrian Study Planned
What I love best about this paper is the title i.e “prevention of lifestyle disease.” Yes! That is a key aspect of acupuncture treatment, true prevention. This study is planned, not yet completed. They will be comparing Heart Rate Variability (measure of stress levels via autonomic balance) and Heart rate and symptomatology comparing different acupuncture…
Read MorePoster Society for Acupuncture Research 2017. Resilience and Results
Here is a link to to my poster in pdf form. Nothing really new to blog readers, but wanted to post it for, uh, “poster-ity”? SAR Poster 2017 Resilience and Results
Read MoreAcupuncture decreases competitive anxiety prior to a competition in young athletes: a randomized controlled trial pilot study.
This study looks at anxiety before competition and finds that acupuncture can help to mitigate it. They use skin conductance as a physiological measure. This concept of prevention of psychologic or physiologic distress is of great interest to me. My hunch is that this is what underlies acupuncture effectiveness for migraine, allergy and other immune…
Read MoreAcupuncture, HRV and Constipation Pa.Ma. update
This patient has coming in for two months for life long constipation. She is clinically improved with only 1 out of 5 days with constipation instead of each day. In her data, you can see a decrease in her sympathetic (fright/flight) and an increase in her parasympathetic (rest/digest) activity over the two months. Correlation is…
Read MoreAcupuncture for Intention Tremor and Stress: HRV Ma. Mi.
This is a case we’ve discussed before and this patient was included in my most recent journal article. Ironically, in the journal article I say that even though she had good clinical improvement, her HRV response was not significant. That is not true now that she has continued with treatment and her data paints a…
Read MoreTVNS in Tinnitus Patients, HRV study
As some of my patients know, I’ve been using tVNS, or transcutaneous vagal nerve stimulation in some of my patients. I do it by stimulating the ear in the cymba concha region. Some patients have opted to take a device home with a custom electrode that I make for them. This paper corroborates the efficacy…
Read MoreClinical Case Study: Stress Reduction An.Ma
This data is to illustrate a patient’s overall stress reduction over time. This patient is 50+ and comes in for cosmetic acupuncture in addition to routine treatments for “maintenance.” Her treatments only vary slightly from session to session since the bulk of the needling is cosmetic. Her other ongoing issues are allergies, sleeping, and stress….
Read MoreAcupuncture for Vertigo, Autonomics and HRV: Sh.Ga
This data is from a new patient who has intractable vertigo. Patients with vertigo tend to have higher stress levels in general, and if that improves it may help since treating vertigo can be challenging. She is a 70+ woman who appears younger than her stated age and is otherwise healthy except for this problem….
Read More