Tag: acupuncture and pain
Acupuncture Research Review for Pain Management
The study, “Global Trends of Acupuncture Clinical Research on Analgesia from 2010 to 2023: A Bibliometric and Visualization Analysis,” presents an in-depth bibliometric analysis of acupuncture analgesia research over a thirteen-year period. This analysis is designed to map the evolution, current state, and future directions of acupuncture in pain anagement, providing valuable insights for researchers,…
Read MoreEffectiveness of Acupuncture for Pain Control After Cesarean Delivery: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Is adding preoperative acupuncture to standard pharmacological therapy effective for pain control in patients after cesarean delivery?This study interests me for a couple of reasons. Post op pain is common. It is also very common to receive opiates after surgeries. Anything to decrease pain post op is to be investigated. Usichenko is a researcher I…
Read MoreElectroacupuncture attenuates chronic inflammatory pain and depression comorbidity by inhibiting hippocampal neuronal apoptosis via the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway
Click on photo or here for brief youtube explanation This study looks at mice in which chronic inflammatory pain has been induced experimentally. With this inflammation, changes in the hippocampus, the seat of memory. Instituting Electroacupuncture at LI4 and Li3 (a common point combination for pain) not only reversed the changes in the hippocampus but…
Read MoreFrom Washington Post: Acupuncture Works for Chronic Pain
I hope this link from the Washington Post will work for everyone. I will exerpt generously. I very much liked what this doctor said at the end of her article. “But when doctors like me suggest acupuncture to their patients — which I often do for pain or constipation — it’s not because we’ve run…
Read MoreMast Cell-Mediated Mechanisms of Nociception.
This article is an example of how all systems are interrelated. It is a “law” that in my book I call “it all spins together.” Here we see the close relationship between the immune system (mast cells) and nociception, or pain perception. I want to emphasize this quote from the article. ” 3. Role of…
Read MoreMechanisms of acupuncture-electroacupuncture on persistent pain
This extremely detailed article on acupuncture-electroacupuncture for persisten pain from 2014 lays out all of the various physiological mechanisms involved in Acupuncture’s effect on pain. I perused it for my writing project, Deep Resilience chapter on Pain. It is SO detailed that I really can’t use it for my chapter. But I’m happy to have…
Read MoreTreating Pain with Acupuncture in Alternative Medicine
“I can’t see a better solution to long-term chronic pain. There is no question in my mind that acupuncture is safer than surgery or drugs.”* – Dr Bruce Pomeranz, Neurosurgeon, University of Toronto *results, as with all aspects of medicine, vary from patient to patient No one should have to live with pain. But deciding…
Read MoreReduced tactile acuity in chronic low back pain is linked with structural neuroplasticity in primary somatosensory cortex and is modulated by acupuncture therapy
This new article by friend of blog Vitaly Napadow shows improved tactile acuity after treatment with acupuncture for Low Back Pain. This is significant because “Previous neuroimaging studies have shown that other chronic pain disorders also demonstrate altered brain structure in S1, as well as other pain-related brain areas (As-Sanie et al., 2012, Kong et al.,…
Read MorePain modulation in patients with fibromyalgia undergoing acupuncture treatment is associated with fluctuations in serum neuropeptide Y levels.
This is not a particularly new paper. I’ve somehow missed the data on Neuropeptide Y and its possible connection to acupuncture pain relief. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28598785 Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2017 May-Jun;35 Suppl 105(3):81-85. Epub 2017 May 31. Pain modulation in patients with fibromyalgia undergoing acupuncture treatment is associated with fluctuations in serum neuropeptide Y levels. Iannuccelli C1,…
Read MoreElectroacupuncture and HRV in Fibromyalgia Patients
This article challenges many of my hypotheses and assumptions. What they found when measuring HRV in the morning on 22 fibromyalgia patients after receiving weeks of acupuncture was increased sympathetic tone. They then attribute this increase in sympathetic tone to positive clinical benefit because of a relative decrease in sympathetic tone in the morning usually. …
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