Tag: acupuncture pain relief
Migraine Treatment Success: HRV data over time (Ne.Be)
This data has been collected since the first treatment. He had severe migraines, 3/week and was in the last year of an extremely high pressure, public project. Insomnia was another issue and it affected the migraines, with poor sleep often triggering a migraine. Points I want to emphasize for you. Patient had clinical results relatively…
Read MoreAcupuncture, HRV and High Blood Pressure (Jo.Ma)
As part of my ongoing research on stress response and acupuncture treatment, today’s post features data from a patient seeking treatment for hypertension, and also knee stiffness after bilateral knee replacements. I’m featuring his Heart Rate Variability (HRV) data ( a measure of his stress response) complexity data combined with the parasympathetic activity because it…
Read MoreHypothalamus and Amygdala Response to Acupuncture Stimuli in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
This article is almost 10 years old, but apparently I’ve never posted it on the blog. It’s pertinent to the autonomic piece of the puzzle that I’m trying to solve re:acupuncture results. Hypothalamus and Amygdala Response to Acupuncture Stimuli in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome V Napadow,1,2 N Kettner,2 J Liu,1 M Li,1 KK Kwong,1 M Vangel,1 N Makris,3 J Audette,4 and KKS Hui1 Abstract Brain…
Read MoreFunctional Movement Disorder Submission to Complementary and Alternative Medicine Journal
This is my submission in reply to a call for papers to the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Journal concerning functional movement disorder. Acupuncture and Vagal Tone: Cervical Dystonia and Intention Tremor Patients with functional movement disorders have lower vagal tone than controls according to a recent study. Lower vagal tone is associated with…
Read MoreResearch Casting Doubt on Acupuncture
Through some web searching, I was able to find a copy of this paper that’s not behind a subscription firewall. These kinds of papers have been coming out for decades. It’s a safe bet as a journalist to criticize acupuncture, it’s a kiss up kick down, comforting the comfortable gambit. There are no heavy hitters…
Read MoreAcupuncture Effective for Prevention of Migraine, Tension headache, and
Headache. 2016 Jul;56(7):1238-40. Role of Acupuncture in the Treatment or Prevention of Migraine, Tension-Type Headache, or Chronic Headache Disorders. Coeytaux RR1,2, Befus D3. Author information Abstract OBJECTIVE: To summarize the current evidence that evaluates the effectiveness of acupuncture for the treatment or prevention of migraine, tension-type headache, and chronic headache disorders. METHODS: Findings from selected…
Read MoreAcupuncture for Endometriosis Review
Thomas Lundeberg does very thorough and thoughtful research. Nice resource article to have on hand. J Pain Res. 2016; 9: 157–165. Published online 2016 Mar 24. doi: 10.2147/JPR.S55580 PMCID: PMC4818044 Is acupuncture effective in the treatment of pain in endometriosis? Iréne Lund1 and Thomas Lundeberg2 Introduction Endometriosis is a multifactorial, estrogen-dependent, inflammatory gynecological condition –…
Read MoreCluster Headache Acupuncture Strategies
Kinda great that this made it into the British Medical Journal. This article shows the merit of understanding the physiology behind clinical conditions. BMJ Case Rep. 2015 Sep 10;2015. Acupuncture for episodic cluster headache: a trigeminal approach. Hayhoe S1 1Department of Pain Management, Colchester University Hospital, Colchester, UK. Abstract Following evidence that acupuncture is…
Read MoreAcupuncture Dosage and Pain
This is background for an article from Acupuncture Today rebutting a negative acupuncture study from Australia on Knee Acupuncture. The article is not yet available online. PLoS One. 2013; 8(10): e77438. Published online 2013 Oct 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077438 PMCID: PMC3795671 Characteristics of Acupuncture Treatment Associated with Outcome: An Individual Patient Meta-Analysis of 17,922 Patients…
Read MoreAcupuncture for Headache and Anxiety
This is another clinical case, looking at the same research questions as this one. This is the case of a young woman age 25, who had a concussion after being thrown from a horse. She had severe headaches and extreme difficulty focusing on her work. So that was the first problem. The second thing…
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