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Heart Rate Variability as a Biomarker for Resilience and Prevention: Data
In the latest issue of Medical Acupuncture they highlighted the importance of Acupuncture as a preventative and a way to optimize health. I’m preparing a journal article to show that HRV improves, stress decreases in migraineurs who have been successfully treated. This data is over patient visits for at least a year. I tried to…
Read MoreAcupuncture for Dermatology Conditions
Acupuncture looks promising in itch modulation, in treating atopic dermatitis and herpes zoster pain, and in promoting wound healing. Medical AcupunctureVol. 29, No. 5 Acupuncture and Cutaneous Medicine: Is It Effective? Mary van den Berg-Wolf , and Thomas Burgoon Published Online:1 Oct 2017https://doi.org/10.1089/acu.2017.1227 Abstract Background: In China, acupuncture has been used as a form of…
Read MoreAcupuncture, Stress Levels and Chronic Intractable Migraine: Af.Es. editioin
This data is from a relatively new patient who has severe, chronic migraine. He is on multiple medications. He takes daily medications, anti-anxiety medications, and tryptans for attacks. The first priority is to try to stabilize his system with acupuncture and avoiding tryptans whenever possible. He is unable to work, so the disability he is…
Read MoreAcupuncture for Anxiety, Clinical Case with HRV data Ta.Ta. edition 2
We have seen data from this patient before, but she continues to improve clinically and her data reflects that. I am including four different data sets here. Her HRV (heart rate variability) is good overall. She is young, healthy and active. So when you have overall good variability, the nonlinear data can be especially revealing. …
Read MoreTaVNS and HRV: Clinical Studies El.Ma. Edition
One more chapter in the TAVNS story. We have discussed this patient before, here and here. This is a young woman, migraineur, who has had dramatic and almost complete remission of her migraines. She has had one or two “break through” headaches during her menstrual cycles, but for the most part is headache free and…
Read MoreElectroacupuncture Helps Alcohol Withdrawal in Mice
This article contains a few things I did not know. The most basic one is that EtOh withdrawal leads to hypersensitivity to pain. This suggests all sorts of different strategies to alleviate alcohol withdrawal symptoms. In this study, they induced alcohol dependence and compared pain tolerance in Etoh withdrawal mice to Etoh naive mice and…
Read MoreHRV and PMS Clinical Case Study: Sa.Sc. Edition cont’d
This data is from a young woman with quite severe, disabling PMS. We are about to enter her third cycle under treatment and she is able to tell a difference. She is not as depressed or foggy. Breast tenderness is much less. So we will see how this cycle goes. Of note is that, typically,…
Read MoreAuriculo Micro Testing of the Ear for Autonomic Activity
I copied a fair amount of this article because the methodology is of interesting to me because I’ve always wondered if the response to needling itself (seconds to minutes) tells us anything about the patient’s susceptibility to treatment or even innate resilience. This study discussed previously, touches on this idea. unfortunately, the researchers did not…
Read MoreTAVNS (transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation) and HRV: Jo.Ru., La.Ja. edition
As blog readers may know, I’ve been experimenting with TAVNS in patients, not only to see how they feel with/after treatment, but also to study their HRV (stress levels) with it. As with most of my clinical work, the results are always somewhat equivocal. Since I can never tell if the result is real, ie….
Read MoreHypertension 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.
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