Effects of acupunctureAnesthesiaShamTherapyModalityOpioid analgesiaPostoperative analgesiaElectro-Therapeutics ResearchPainEffectivenessMedical AcupunctureElectroacupunctureEpiduralAcupressureStimulationAuricular acupunctureEndogenous opioids and serotoninPractice of AcupunctureIrritable Bowel SyNeedlesComplementaryRatsMechanismsAnalgesic effectsSymptomatic TreatmentPhysiologicalSuggest that acupunctureMechanism of acupunctureEvidence that acupunctureConference on acupunctureTherapeuticTherapiesTraditional acupunctureInterventionsMoxibustionTENSPatientsAdverseEffectiveSystematic reviews
Effects of acupuncture7
- During this presentation we will examine evidence from the animal basic science literature indicating that there may be some specific effects of acupuncture needling that differ from placebo analgesia. (painweek.org)
- For example, papers may present data such as the effects of acupuncture on the cardiovascular or nervous systems using blood chemistry, hemodynamics, enzymes, and other biochemical or pathophysiological, Bi-Digital O-Ring Test, nerve conduction velocity, threshold stimulation for pain, somatosensory evoked potentials or any other electro-physiological method that is scientifically acceptable. (cognizantcommunication.com)
- Effects of acupuncture at different periods on circadian rhythms of locomotor activity and core body temperature in hamsters. (aoma.edu)
- Some of the controversies may be resolved through the use of the new 'placebo needles' which enable researchers to adequately control for placebo effects of acupuncture. (meridianhealthnc.com)
- A randomized controlled study of 58 inpatients with fractured ribs examined the effects of acupuncture analgesia against a placebo control. (healthcmi.com)
- Therefore, no support was provided for analgesic or placebo effects of acupuncture. (ocom.edu)
- Concludes that there is no clear evidence of the effects of acupuncture on stroke rehabilitation. (ebm-first.com)
Anesthesia5
- Each participant was scheduled for elective cesarean delivery under spinal anesthesia and randomized to either the acupuncture group (n = 60) or placebo group (n = 60). (hcplive.com)
- Many women desire pain management during labor and delivery, and there are many medical indications for analgesia and anesthesia during labor and delivery. (nih.gov)
- Under appropriate physician supervision, labor and delivery nursing personnel who have been educated properly and have demonstrated current competence should be able to participate in the management of epidural infusions.The purpose of this document is to review medical options for analgesia during labor and anesthesia for surgical procedures that are common at the time of delivery. (nih.gov)
- Two hundred patients were randomly divided into an electroacupuncture analgesia group and an intravenous anesthesia group, 100 cases in each group. (qigonginstitute.org)
- More recently, the ACVA updated its title to the American College of Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia, highlighting the increased awareness of the importance of analgesia among veterinary specialists. (asra.com)
Sham15
- Acupuncture Analgesia Therapy or Sham? (painweek.org)
- In most of these studies acupuncture is no better than sham/placebo. (painweek.org)
- This raises the question: Is acupuncture simply a sham/placebo? (painweek.org)
- One systematic review on acupuncture for acute LBP suggested that it is more effective than medications or sham acupuncture for relief of pain but not for improvement of function. (racgp.org.au)
- 11 One sham-controlled clinical trial on acupuncture for acute LBP reported a greater improvement in the real acupuncture group after one treatment. (racgp.org.au)
- The issue is further complicated by inherent difficulties in the use of appropriate controls, such as placebos and sham acupuncture groups. (meridianhealthnc.com)
- OBJECTIVE: To compare the effect of real and sham acupuncture and a control intervention on thermal sensation and thermal pain thresholds. (ocom.edu)
- INTERVENTION: Subjects were randomly assigned (blind card allocation) to 1 of 6 possible orders of application of the interventions, which consisted of 25 minutes each of control, real, and sham acupuncture. (ocom.edu)
- The level of increase did not differ significantly from the changes that occurred with sham acupuncture and control interventions. (ocom.edu)
- CONCLUSIONS: Although we observed a trend toward a decreased sensitivity to thermal pain and thermal sensation with real acupuncture, this trend did not differ significantly from the changes with control or sham interventions. (ocom.edu)
- The results of this randomised, controlled clinical trial demonstrated that acupuncture provided no greater benefit than invasive sham acupuncture in reducing systolic or diastolic BP (blood pressure). (ebm-first.com)
- Conclusions: "Compared with physiotherapy and as-needed anti-inflammatory drugs, addition of either TCA (traditional Chinese acupuncture) or sham acupuncture led to greater improvement in WOMAC score at 26 weeks. (ebm-first.com)
- No statistically significant difference was observed between TCA and sham acupuncture, suggesting that the observed differences could be due to placebo effects, differences in intensity of provider contact, or a physiologic effect of needling regardless of whether it is done according to TCA principles. (ebm-first.com)
- The findings showed that semi-standardized acupuncture showed no difference from sham acupuncture in preventing migraine attacks. (ebm-first.com)
- This trial found no difference between acupuncture and sham acupuncture in the ability of stroke patients to perform daily activities of living or in their health-related quality of life. (ebm-first.com)
Therapy9
- 12 - 14 Two randomised controlled trials of acupuncture in ED settings have been published: one reported greater pain reduction with acupuncture together with standard therapy than with standard therapy alone, 15 while the other reported significant neurological and functional recovery in patients with acute spinal cord injuries. (mja.com.au)
- Role of collagen fibers in acupuncture analgesia therapy on rats. (qigonginstitute.org)
- Recently, we have found that a number of microRNAs (miRNAs) and proteins are involved in the response to acupuncture therapy in hypertensive rats. (hindawi.com)
- Some physiological level changes of neurons after altering the miR-339 levels are needed to validate the suggested therapeutic role of miR-339/Sirt2/NF- B/FOXO1 axis in response to acupuncture therapy in the future work. (hindawi.com)
- A team, led by Taras I. Usichenko, MD, PhD, Department of Anesthesiology, University Medicine of Greifswald, evaluated the efficacy and effectiveness of acupuncture as an adjunctive therapy for pain control following cesarean delivered compared to a placebo intervention and standard care alone. (hcplive.com)
- With consideration for personnel and time expenditures, acupuncture can be recommended as routine, supplemental therapy for pain control in patients after elective cesarean delivery. (hcplive.com)
- A novel and effective acupuncture modality as a complementary therapy to acute pain relief in inpatients with rib fractures. (healthcmi.com)
- The improved analgesia in turn facilitates physical therapy and rehab goals and ultimately may translate into a shorter length of stay and better patient satisfaction. (medscape.com)
- Concludes that there is no consistent evidence that acupuncture, acupressure, laser therapy or electrostimulation are effective for smoking cessation, but methodological problems mean that no firm conclusions can be drawn. (ebm-first.com)
Modality5
- Human imaging studies that included electroencephalography, functional magnetic resonance imaging, and positron emission tomography coalesced the results of clinical trials and animal neurotransmitter studies to suggest that acupuncture changes the way the brain works and that this is fundamental to its mechanism of action as a treatment modality that differs from placebo. (ndnr.com)
- Purpose/Objectives: To explore the current state of the science regarding acupuncture as a treatment modality for cancer pain. (ons.org)
- Conclusions: Findings suggest a lack of level I evidence regarding the use of acupuncture as a cancer pain treatment modality. (ons.org)
- An exploration of how acupuncture to achieve analgesia, an ancient modality, is used to treat a variety of pain levels in animal patients. (ivcjournal.com)
- This is a concept that has been around since the 1990s and essentially refers to the use of more than one pain-control modality to achieve effective analgesia. (medscape.com)
Opioid analgesia1
- Pharmacists should work with the healthcare team to develop and optimize patient-centered care plans that incorporate nonpharmacologic approaches, nonopioid analgesia, combination nonopioid/opioid analgesia at calibrated doses, and steps to prevent adverse side effects. (uspharmacist.com)
Postoperative analgesia2
- A systematic review of intravenous ketamine for postoperative analgesia. (degruyter.com)
- An additional 60 consecutive patients received the standard postoperative analgesia to form a nonrandomized standard care group. (hcplive.com)
Electro-Therapeutics Research1
- Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics Research, 34, 27-40. (ons.org)
Pain58
- Acupuncture, a complementary medical practice, has been evaluated for its benefits in postoperative pain with heterogeneous results. (degruyter.com)
- In this pilot non-randomized controlled study conducted at a tertiary medical center in Israel, patients received either acupuncture with standard-of-care pain treatment (acupuncture group) or standard-of-care treatment only (control group) following surgery. (degruyter.com)
- Integrating acupuncture with standard care may improve pain control in the postoperative setting. (degruyter.com)
- however, multiple recent randomized controlled trials of acupuncture in chronic pain disorders have largely shown mixed findings. (painweek.org)
- This study aimed to assess analgesia provided by acupuncture, alone or in combination with pharmacotherapy, to patients presenting to emergency departments with acute low back pain, migraine or ankle sprain. (mja.com.au)
- 528 patients with acute low back pain (270 patients), migraine (92) or ankle sprain (166) were randomised to acupuncture alone (177 patients), acupuncture plus pharmacotherapy (178) or pharmacotherapy alone (173). (mja.com.au)
- The effectiveness of acupuncture in providing acute analgesia for patients with back pain and ankle sprain was comparable with that of pharmacotherapy. (mja.com.au)
- The new Acupuncture was equivalent and non-inferior to pharmacotherapy in providing analgesia for patients with back pain and ankle sprain. (mja.com.au)
- There was no difference between groups in adverse events, acceptability or health resource use, but pain was not managed optimally by either acupuncture or pharmacotherapy, nor by their combination. (mja.com.au)
- Acupuncture is widely used by medical practitioners and other clinicians to relieve pain in community practice settings. (mja.com.au)
- 5 Acupuncture can provide analgesia for chronic musculoskeletal pain and headache, 6 - 9 and its use is covered by therapeutic guidelines for acute pain. (mja.com.au)
- 10 , 11 However, there have been few clinical trials of acupuncture for treating acute pain, and few EDs offer it for pain relief. (mja.com.au)
- NEUROLOGY ADVISOR: Study shows patients with tension-type headaches experienced benefits from acupuncture and stretching, especially in combination with pressure pain threshold (PPT) physiotherapy hands-on techniques. (emperors.edu)
- Acupuncture, a traditional Chinese therapeutic technique, has been put into practice for more than 4000 years and widely used for pain management since 1958. (qigonginstitute.org)
- fMRI analysis revealed that analgesia was related to decreased brain activity in pain-related brain regions, including the lingual and parahippocampal gyrus. (jneurosci.org)
- However, it remains unknown if mindfulness-meditation-based analgesia is mediated by opioids, an important consideration for using meditation to treat chronic pain. (jneurosci.org)
- Evidence suggests that acupuncture may be an effective treatment for chronic pain conditions. (racgp.org.au)
- Treatment with acupuncture usually continues until pain subsides or pain control is satisfactory. (racgp.org.au)
- The most common use of acupuncture throughout the world is for pain management .1,2 In the United States, the primary reasons for acupuncture use are low back pain (34%), joint pain (16%), neck pain (14%), and headache or migraine (10%).3 It logically follows that pain management is a primary role of acupuncture in the naturopathic treatment of cancer. (ndnr.com)
- electroacupuncture was shown to also decrease activation of the amygdala and hippocampus, the primal fear and memory centers.5,6 Therefore, the science of acupuncture could be altering how we interpret pain on a cognitive level. (ndnr.com)
- Electroacupuncture (EA) has been confirmed effectiveness in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and P2X 3 receptors in the peripheral and central neurons participate in the acupuncture-mediated relief of the visceral pain in IBS. (hindawi.com)
- 7 , 8 ] confirmed that P2X 3 , P2X 2/3 , and other receptors can transmit nociceptive information to the pain center and raised the hypothesis that "the essence underlying the effects of traditional Chinese acupuncture is the purinergic signal" [ 9 ], which provides a new idea for research on the mechanism of acupuncture. (hindawi.com)
- Acupuncture can play a role in relieving visceral pain by acting on both gastrointestinal motility [ 10 ] and paresthesia. (hindawi.com)
- Our previous clinical and animal studies have also confirmed the effectiveness of acupuncture in the treatment of IBS [ 11 - 13 ] and initially revealed that the P2X 2 , P2X 3 , and P2Y 1 receptors in the peripheral neurons of the colon and in central neurons participate in the acupuncture-mediated relief of the visceral pain in IBS. (hindawi.com)
- Especially, P2X 3 receptors play an important role in mediating the occurrence and maintenance of pain in neurons of the intestinal myenteric plexus, dorsal root ganglia (DRG), spinal dorsal horn, prefrontal cortex, and anterior cingulate cortex in a rat model of IBS with visceral hypersensitivity [ 14 ], and acupuncture can achieve visceral pain relief through purinergic receptors at different levels of the brain-gut axis. (hindawi.com)
- In this study, starting from the mechanism by which P2X 3 receptors in the colon and colon-associated DRG are involved in the EA-mediated alleviation of IBS visceral hypersensitivity, we investigated the acupuncture-mediated regulation of the peripheral sensitization of visceral pain to provide an experimental basis for the interpretation of the mechanism by which acupuncture relieves visceral pain. (hindawi.com)
- Usually, the electrodes are initially placed on the skin over the painful area, but other locations (eg, over cutaneous nerves, trigger points, acupuncture sites) may give comparable or even better pain relief. (medscape.com)
- Acupuncture can be an easy and effective way to supplement treatment for a pain following a cesarean delivery . (hcplive.com)
- Pharmacological approaches to pain control following cesarean deliveries are often insufficient without supplemental treatment such as acupuncture. (hcplive.com)
- They also looked at secondary outcomes of analgesia-related adverse effects, analgesics consumption, time to mobilization and Foley catheter removal, quality of patient blinding to randomization, and patient satisfaction with treatment of pain. (hcplive.com)
- Results of this trial showed that acupuncture was safe and effective in reducing pain and accelerating mobilization of patients after cesarean delivery," the authors wrote. (hcplive.com)
- The study, " Effectiveness of Acupuncture for Pain Control After Cesarean Delivery ," was published online in JAMA Network Open . (hcplive.com)
- Data Synthesis: This article synthesizes nine years of published research on the use of acupuncture as an adjunct treatment for the management of cancer pain. (ons.org)
- Analgesic effect of auricular acupuncture for cancer pain: A randomized, blinded, controlled trial. (ons.org)
- Acupuncture for chronic low back pain: A randomized placebo-controlled study with long-term follow-up. (ons.org)
- Clinical study on acupuncture treatment of stomach carcinoma pain. (ons.org)
- Acupuncture and malignant pain problems. (ons.org)
- Substance P and beta-endorphin mediate electro-acupuncture induced analgesia in mouse cancer pain model. (ons.org)
- Treatment of cancerous abdominal pain by acupuncture: A report of 92 cases. (ons.org)
- Although the availability of different methods of labor analgesia will vary from hospital to hospital, the methods available within an institution should not be based on a patient's ability to pay.The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists believes that in order to allow the maximum number of patients to benefit from neuraxial analgesia, labor nurses should not be restricted from participating in the management of pain relief during labor. (nih.gov)
- JIN and colleagues, Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China studied the analgesia efficacy of drugs combined with acupuncture to treat pain for women in labour. (positivehealth.com)
- Electroacupuncture analgesia can effectively alleviate the pain during gynecologic outpatient operation and it is simple and safe without adverse reactions. (qigonginstitute.org)
- There are some high quality trials that support the use of acupuncture for some types of pain and nausea, but there are also high quality trials that contradict this conclusion. (dcscience.net)
- Early in the 19th century a London surgeon with the name of Churchill published two books on acupuncture describing how he treated patients with rheumatic pain by inserting needles into tender points (Baldry 2005a). (aahclinic.com)
- Against the background of the gate control theory of pain (Melzack & Wall 1965), the discovery of the 'endorphins' (Hughes et al 1975) was a major advance, followed shortly afterwards by studies that showed that acupuncture released the endorphins (Han & Terenius 1982). (aahclinic.com)
- Results are uncertain about the effect of sucrose compared to NNS, breastfeeding, laser acupuncture, and facilitated tucking, in reducing pain scores. (cochrane.org)
- However, promising results have emerged, for example, showing efficacy of acupuncture in adult postoperative and chemotherapy nausea and vomiting and in postoperative dental pain. (meridianhealthnc.com)
- It can be used for pain relief as well as for a quite extensive array of internal medical disorders, post operation analgesia, addictions, ob-gyn, and neurological and psychological disorders. (thehealthyplanet.com)
- Acupuncture can be a very effective tool for relieving pain. (grossbeakchiro.com)
- There is a close correlation between traditional Chinese acupuncture points for pain and common muscular trigger points. (grossbeakchiro.com)
- The results of controlled studies which have been extensively reviewed show good evidence for the short term effectiveness of acupuncture in many pain states. (grossbeakchiro.com)
- The research team documented that acupuncture provides significant long lasting pain relief for rib fracture patients. (healthcmi.com)
- The researchers note that acupuncture relieved pain "regardless of the number of fractured ribs or the severity of trauma. (healthcmi.com)
- The acupuncture point selection deviated from the classical application of ashi points and hua tou jia ji points for the treatment of rib related pain. (healthcmi.com)
- Subjective pain point "a" was treated with a point selection at point "A." The new approach to point selection was prompted by efforts to create a simplified acupuncture point selection protocol that is easily performed in an inpatient setting. (healthcmi.com)
- They note that since this acupuncture style is unique, new research is necessary to document the biochemical mechanisms by which it attenuates pain. (healthcmi.com)
- RESULTS: There were increases in cold and hot pain and cold sensation thresholds with real acupuncture. (ocom.edu)
- Laparoscopy should be attempted if the patient is hemodynamically stable, a high index of suspicion remains, or the patient complains of increasing pain despite adequate analgesia. (medscape.com)
Effectiveness2
- The clinical effectiveness of acupuncture continues to attract controversy. (meridianhealthnc.com)
- Concludes that systematic reviews of acupuncture have overstated effectiveness by including studies likely to be biased. (ebm-first.com)
Medical Acupuncture7
- It is currently self-published by the British Medical Acupuncture Society (BMAS). (dcscience.net)
- Western medical acupuncture looks very similar to traditional Chinese acupuncture. (aahclinic.com)
- The modern history of Western medical acupuncture starts in the 1970s with Felix Mann, a medically qualified doctor who took the trouble to learn Chinese so that he could better understand the acupuncture that he had learned in both Europe and China. (aahclinic.com)
- Since the 1970s, Western medical acupuncture has gradually earned its place and become more widely accepted alongside conventional Western therapies in a modern health service. (aahclinic.com)
- Western medical acupuncture is based on a contemporary understanding of the body's mechanisms. (aahclinic.com)
- Each can be used for a different purpose, which is why anyone using Western medical acupuncture needs to understand the patient's condition in terms of its conventional diagnosis and pathology. (aahclinic.com)
- Journal of the American Academy of Medical Acupuncture , 16(3). (aoma.edu)
Electroacupuncture3
- Observation on analgesia effect of electroacupuncture during gynecologic outpatient operation]. (qigonginstitute.org)
- To verify the feasibility of electroacupuncture analgesia applied to gynecologic outpatient operation. (qigonginstitute.org)
- The electroacupuncture analgesia group was treated with electroacupuncture at bilateral Hegu (LI 4) and Neiguan (PC 6), and the routine gynecologic outpatient operation was performed under patients' waking state. (qigonginstitute.org)
Epidural2
- A woman who requests epidural analgesia during labor should not be deprived of this service based on the status of her health insurance. (nih.gov)
- 4 Neuraxial injection of opioids and/or local anesthetic via epidural catheter or single-shot epidurals are commonly performed to provide pelvic limb analgesia (Figure 1). (asra.com)
Acupressure1
- Acupuncture/Acupressure for weight reduction? (cam-quest.org)
Stimulation5
- However, what is the mechanism underlying the acupuncture for analgesia effects by stimulation of acupoints, what substances receive the original mechanical acupuncture signals from the acupoints, or what transforms these signals into effective biological signals are not well understood. (qigonginstitute.org)
- As a result, nonpharmacological analgesics, such as electrical stimulation and acupuncture, have received increased attention ( Coutaux, 2017 ). (jneurosci.org)
- 13 Treatments usually last 25-35 minutes and may be combined with electrical stimulation of the needles (electro-acupuncture), heat treatment or transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS). (racgp.org.au)
- Acupuncture is the stimulation of specific acupoints along the skin of the body involving the application of penetration of thin needles [ 18 ]. (hindawi.com)
- TANAKA and colleagues, Pacific Wellness Institute, Toronto, Ontario Canada studied the physiological effect of superficial acupuncture stimulation during a patients exhalation phase in a sitting position (SES). (positivehealth.com)
Auricular acupuncture1
- Concludes that there is currently no evidence that auricular acupuncture is effective for the treatment of cocaine dependence. (ebm-first.com)
Endogenous opioids and serotonin1
- 1 Broadly, acupuncture stimulates the release of endogenous opioids and serotonin, activates glutamate and diffuse noxious inhibitory control systems, 2-4 and has local segmental effects. (racgp.org.au)
Practice of Acupuncture1
- Perhaps that is not surprising insofar as the modern western practice of acupuncture owes more to Chinese nationalistic propaganda that started in the time of Mao-Tse Tung than it owes to ancient wisdom (which often turns out to be bunk anyway). (dcscience.net)
Irritable Bowel Sy2
- Concludes that there is no evidence to support the use of acupuncture for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). (ebm-first.com)
- Concludes that acupuncture in IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) is primarily a placebo response. (ebm-first.com)
Needles7
- Acupuncture is a Chinese medical treatment involving insertion of thin sterile metal needles into specific areas of the body. (racgp.org.au)
- The entire study population in the acupuncture group received auricular and body acupuncture with indwelling intradermal needles, while the placebo group was treated with non-penetrating placebo needles. (hcplive.com)
- Acupuncture is a method, in which very fine metallic needles are pierced to stimulate spec. (com.vn)
- A Western acupuncturist makes a medical diagnosis in the conventional way, uses needles to influence the physiology of the body according to the conventional (scientific) view, and regards the acupuncture as a conventional treatment along with drugs or surgery, or whatever else the patient requires. (aahclinic.com)
- Neither of these eminent doctors used Chinese philosophy to explain acupuncture, but simply inserted needles into the painful points. (aahclinic.com)
- Acupuncture, used to balance the meridian matrix system through the use of needles or other means, is one of the earliest forms of practicing Energy Medicine along with Ayurveda medicine from India. (thehealthyplanet.com)
- The acupuncture filiform needles were 2.5 cm long of 30 gauge. (healthcmi.com)
Complementary2
- Results: Acupuncture and TCM, are one of the most researched area of non-conventional, complementary therapies. (omicsonline.org)
- Interest in research on the efficacy of acupuncture was piqued by the 1997 National Institutes of Health consensus conference on acupuncture (http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/nov97/od-05.htm), as well as by an increase in federal funding for complementary and alternative medicine research since 1999. (ndnr.com)
Rats6
- In this work, the role of collagen fibers at acupoints during acupuncture analgesia on rats was investigated. (qigonginstitute.org)
- Recent studies have revealed that a group of miRNAs are involved in the neural mechanism of acupuncture treatment in hypertensive rats [ 30 ]. (hindawi.com)
- Effect of electro-acupuncture on PKC and PTK in the hippocampi of rats with senile dementia. (aoma.edu)
- Effect on the signal pathway of hippocampal protein kinase in senile dementia rats with the activation of electro-acupuncture. (aoma.edu)
- An experimental study of acupuncture effects in dementia senile model rats. (aoma.edu)
- The immunomodulating properties of "Shangqiu" (LP-5), "Ququan" (H-8), and "Rangu" (R-2) points were studied in several experiments performed on male Wister rats treated bilaterally by acupuncture (A) or electro-acupuncture (EA). (mcmaster.ca)
Mechanisms7
- These findings have implications for the underlying brain mechanisms of psychological analgesia. (jneurosci.org)
- About the same time, research had begun to provide the means to understand the mechanisms of acupuncture. (aahclinic.com)
- This close association between acupuncture and the endorphins, now called 'endogenous opioid peptides', helped enormously to establish the credibility of acupuncture and this has been reinforced over time by discoveries of other mechanisms of action, as well as by positive clinical trials. (aahclinic.com)
- The five mechanisms can go a long way towards explaining the phenomena of acupuncture. (aahclinic.com)
- One of the main mechanisms of acupuncture analgesia is the release of myofascial trigger points. (grossbeakchiro.com)
- Given the novelty of the point selection method used in the study, the researchers note that further investigation is required to examine the mechanisms by which this type of acupuncture exerts its analgesic effects. (healthcmi.com)
- The research team notes that prior research of acupuncture points located on traditional acupuncture meridians documents specific physiological and neural mechanisms active in acupuncture analgesia including biochemical changes in serotonergic systems and neurotransmitter expression. (healthcmi.com)
Analgesic effects1
- When the structure of the collagen fibers at Zusanli (ST36) was destroyed by injection of type I collagenase, the needle force caused by the acupuncture declined and the analgesic effects of rotation or lift-thrusting manipulations was attenuated accompanying the restraint of the degranulation ratios of mast cells. (qigonginstitute.org)
Symptomatic Treatment1
- Conclusion: The notion that acupuncture is an effective symptomatic treatment for fibromyalgia is not supported by the results from rigorous clinical trials. (ebm-first.com)
Physiological1
- We have already demonstrated convincingly established by the management of the majority of acupuncture point physiological responses. (omicsonline.org)
Suggest that acupuncture1
- Also we will explore how translational approaches using quantitative sensory testing as well as functional and neurochemical imaging in humans have been used to suggest that acupuncture may specifically work by upregulating receptor activity and neurotransmitter release, both hallmarks of synaptic plasticity. (painweek.org)
Mechanism of acupuncture2
- In recent years, the application of functional neuroimaging, microarray technology, proteomic analysis, and metabolomics analysis has significantly improved our understanding of the mechanism of acupuncture [ 25 - 28 ]. (hindawi.com)
- However, although there are a large number of mechanistic reports on the mechanism of acupuncture in the literature, we still have a poor knowledge on how acupuncture works [ 29 ]. (hindawi.com)
Evidence that acupuncture1
- They provide no robust evidence that acupuncture works for any indication. (ebm-first.com)
Conference on acupuncture1
- The objective of this NIH Consensus Statement is to inform the biomedical research and clinical practice communities of the results of the NIH Consensus Development Conference on Acupuncture. (meridianhealthnc.com)
Therapeutic3
- The implications Acupuncture is safe, acceptable and has an analgesic effect comparable with that of pharmacotherapy, but none of the therapeutic strategies used provided optimal analgesia within one hour of presentation. (mja.com.au)
- The journal will accept original basic or clinical research papers, worthwhile reviews on safe and effective therapeutic methods, applications, limitations, theories, or principles of acupuncture and electro-therapeutics, including electro-analgesia or any method of treatment through the application of various types of electric or electromagnetic field stimuli as well as electrical and nonelectrical diagnostic methods. (cognizantcommunication.com)
- Acupuncture as a therapeutic intervention is widely practiced in the United States. (meridianhealthnc.com)
Therapies2
- Acupuncture is a safe and acceptable form of analgesia, but none of the examined therapies provided optimal acute analgesia. (mja.com.au)
- Acupuncture: is one of the most accepted CAM therapies, most well: known branch of the Traditional Chinese Medicine, which flows intensive research a few decades in the US, Europe, even in China. (omicsonline.org)
Traditional acupuncture1
- Some of the original concepts of traditional acupuncture are not supported by good scientific evidence. (meridianhealthnc.com)
Interventions1
- Further research is likely to uncover additional areas where acupuncture interventions will be useful. (meridianhealthnc.com)
Moxibustion1
- Chinese Acupuncture & Moxibustion , 26(5). (aoma.edu)
TENS2
- Research indicates, however, that high-frequency TENS analgesia is not reversed by naloxone, implicating a naloxone-resistant, dynorphin-binding receptor. (medscape.com)
- The mechanism of the analgesia produced by TENS is explained by the gate-control theory proposed by Melzack and Wall in 1965. (medscape.com)
Patients1
- The patients were treated one time per day with 5 acupuncture points being needled each time. (healthcmi.com)
Adverse1
- Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and opioids offer modest analgesia but can cause adverse effects. (racgp.org.au)
Effective2
- Is acupuncture effective in the treatment of fibromyalgia? (cam-quest.org)
- The researchers concluded that acupuncture is both safe and effective. (healthcmi.com)
Systematic reviews1
- Reliable conclusions from systematic reviews make it clear that acupuncture does not work for a whole range of conditions, except as a placebo. (dcscience.net)