Acupuncture Analgesia: Analgesia produced by the insertion of ACUPUNCTURE needles at certain ACUPUNCTURE POINTS on the body. This activates small myelinated nerve fibers in the muscle which transmit impulses to the spinal cord and then activate three centers - the spinal cord, midbrain and pituitary/hypothalamus - to produce analgesia.Acupuncture Therapy: Treatment of disease by inserting needles along specific pathways or meridians. The placement varies with the disease being treated. It is sometimes used in conjunction with heat, moxibustion, acupressure, or electric stimulation.Acupuncture Points: Designated locations along nerves or organ meridians for inserting acupuncture needles.Analgesia: Methods of PAIN relief that may be used with or in place of ANALGESICS.Acupuncture: The occupational discipline of the traditional Chinese methods of ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY for treating disease by inserting needles along specific pathways or meridians.Analgesia, Epidural: The relief of pain without loss of consciousness through the introduction of an analgesic agent into the epidural space of the vertebral canal. It is differentiated from ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL which refers to the state of insensitivity to sensation.Analgesia, Obstetrical: The elimination of PAIN, without the loss of CONSCIOUSNESS, during OBSTETRIC LABOR; OBSTETRIC DELIVERY; or the POSTPARTUM PERIOD, usually through the administration of ANALGESICS.Acupuncture, Ear: Acupuncture therapy by inserting needles in the ear. It is used to control pain and for treating various ailments.Analgesia, Patient-Controlled: Relief of PAIN, without loss of CONSCIOUSNESS, through ANALGESIC AGENTS administered by the patients. It has been used successfully to control POSTOPERATIVE PAIN, during OBSTETRIC LABOR, after BURNS, and in TERMINAL CARE. The choice of agent, dose, and lockout interval greatly influence effectiveness. The potential for overdose can be minimized by combining small bolus doses with a mandatory interval between successive doses (lockout interval).Analgesics, Opioid: Compounds with activity like OPIATE ALKALOIDS, acting at OPIOID RECEPTORS. Properties include induction of ANALGESIA or NARCOSIS.Electroacupuncture: A form of acupuncture with electrical impulses passing through the needles to stimulate NERVE TISSUE. It can be used for ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIA; REHABILITATION; and treatment for diseases.Moxibustion: The burning of a small, thimble sized, smoldering plug of dried leaves on the SKIN at an ACUPUNCTURE point. Usually the plugs contain leaves of MUGWORT or moxa.Pain Measurement: Scales, questionnaires, tests, and other methods used to assess pain severity and duration in patients or experimental animals to aid in diagnosis, therapy, and physiological studies.Meridians: Classical loci in ACUPUNCTURE. They are main and collateral channels, regarded as a network of passages, through which vital energy (Qi) circulates and along which acupoints (ACUPUNCTURE POINTS) are distributed. The meridians are a series of 14 lines upon which more than 400 acupoints are located on the body. (The Pinyin Chinese-English Dictionary, p. 359; Dr. Wu Lancheng, Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing)Pain, Postoperative: Pain during the period after surgery.Dictionaries, MedicalNerve Fibers, Myelinated: A class of nerve fibers as defined by their structure, specifically the nerve sheath arrangement. The AXONS of the myelinated nerve fibers are completely encased in a MYELIN SHEATH. They are fibers of relatively large and varied diameters. Their NEURAL CONDUCTION rates are faster than those of the unmyelinated nerve fibers (NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED). Myelinated nerve fibers are present in somatic and autonomic nerves.Low Back Pain: Acute or chronic pain in the lumbar or sacral regions, which may be associated with musculo-ligamentous SPRAINS AND STRAINS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; and other conditions.Emergency Service, Hospital: Hospital department responsible for the administration and provision of immediate medical or surgical care to the emergency patient.Treatment Outcome: Evaluation undertaken to assess the results or consequences of management and procedures used in combating disease in order to determine the efficacy, effectiveness, safety, and practicability of these interventions in individual cases or series.Phenylalanine: An essential aromatic amino acid that is a precursor of MELANIN; DOPAMINE; noradrenalin (NOREPINEPHRINE), and THYROXINE.Drug Costs: The amount that a health care institution or organization pays for its drugs. It is one component of the final price that is charged to the consumer (FEES, PHARMACEUTICAL or PRESCRIPTION FEES).Stethoscopes: Instruments intended to detect and study sound produced by the heart, lungs, or other parts of the body. (from UMDNS, 1999)Byzantium: An ancient city, the site of modern Istanbul. From the 4th to 15th centuries the empire extended from southeastern Europe to western Asia, reaching its greatest extent under Justinian (527-565). By about 1000 A.D. it comprised the southern Balkans, Greece, Asia Minor, and parts of southern Italy. The capture of Constantinople in 1453 marked the formal end of the Byzantine Empire. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988)Encyclopedias as Topic: Works containing information articles on subjects in every field of knowledge, usually arranged in alphabetical order, or a similar work limited to a special field or subject. (From The ALA Glossary of Library and Information Science, 1983)Charities: Social welfare organizations with programs designed to assist individuals in need.History, Medieval: The period of history from the year 500 through 1450 of the common era.Vein of Galen Malformations: Congenital arteriovenous malformation involving the VEIN OF GALEN, a large deep vein at the base of the brain. The rush of arterial blood directly into the vein of Galen, without passing through the CAPILLARIES, can overwhelm the heart and lead to CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE.History, Ancient: The period of history before 500 of the common era.Osteoarthritis: A progressive, degenerative joint disease, the most common form of arthritis, especially in older persons. The disease is thought to result not from the aging process but from biochemical changes and biomechanical stresses affecting articular cartilage. In the foreign literature it is often called osteoarthrosis deformans.Knee Joint: A synovial hinge connection formed between the bones of the FEMUR; TIBIA; and PATELLA.Joints: Also known as articulations, these are points of connection between the ends of certain separate bones, or where the borders of other bones are juxtaposed.Osteoarthritis, Knee: Noninflammatory degenerative disease of the knee joint consisting of three large categories: conditions that block normal synchronous movement, conditions that produce abnormal pathways of motion, and conditions that cause stress concentration resulting in changes to articular cartilage. (Crenshaw, Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics, 8th ed, p2019)Factor VII Deficiency: An autosomal recessive characteristic or a coagulation disorder acquired in association with VITAMIN K DEFICIENCY. FACTOR VII is a Vitamin K dependent glycoprotein essential to the extrinsic pathway of coagulation.Cartilage, Articular: A protective layer of firm, flexible cartilage over the articulating ends of bones. It provides a smooth surface for joint movement, protecting the ends of long bones from wear at points of contact.Mesopotamia: Ancient land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, corresponding to modern-day Iraq and partly NE Syria, SE Turkey and smaller parts of SW Iran. It is considered to be the cradle of civilization in the West. Bronze Age Mesopotamia included Sumer and the Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian empires (from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mesopotamia )Veterinary Medicine: The medical science concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases in animals.Chronic Pain: Aching sensation that persists for more than a few months. It may or may not be associated with trauma or disease, and may persist after the initial injury has healed. Its localization, character, and timing are more vague than with acute pain.Linear Models: Statistical models in which the value of a parameter for a given value of a factor is assumed to be equal to a + bx, where a and b are constants. The models predict a linear regression.Communication: The exchange or transmission of ideas, attitudes, or beliefs between individuals or groups.Physicians: Individuals licensed to practice medicine.Patient Satisfaction: The degree to which the individual regards the health care service or product or the manner in which it is delivered by the provider as useful, effective, or beneficial.Longitudinal Studies: Studies in which variables relating to an individual or group of individuals are assessed over a period of time.Pain Management: A form of therapy that employs a coordinated and interdisciplinary approach for easing the suffering and improving the quality of life of those experiencing pain.Bupivacaine: A widely used local anesthetic agent.Cesarean Section: Extraction of the FETUS by means of abdominal HYSTEROTOMY.Injections, Spinal: Introduction of therapeutic agents into the spinal region using a needle and syringe.Labor, Obstetric: The repetitive uterine contraction during childbirth which is associated with the progressive dilation of the uterine cervix (CERVIX UTERI). Successful labor results in the expulsion of the FETUS and PLACENTA. Obstetric labor can be spontaneous or induced (LABOR, INDUCED).Hypnotics and Sedatives: Drugs used to induce drowsiness or sleep or to reduce psychological excitement or anxiety.TracheitisConscious Sedation: A drug-induced depression of consciousness during which patients respond purposefully to verbal commands, either alone or accompanied by light tactile stimulation. No interventions are required to maintain a patent airway. (From: American Society of Anesthesiologists Practice Guidelines)
Case of sepsis caused by Bifidobacterium longum. (1/104)
We report a case of sepsis caused by Bifidobacterium longum in a 19-year-old male who had developed high fever, jaundice, and hepatomegaly after acupuncture therapy with small gold needles. Anaerobic, non-spore-forming, gram-positive bacilli were isolated from his blood and finally identified as B. longum. He recovered completely after treatment with ticarcillin and metronidazole. To our knowledge, this is the first report of incidental sepsis caused by B. longum. (+info)Relationship between electroacupuncture analgesia and dopamine receptors in nucleus accumbens. (2/104)
AIM: To study the roles of dopamine (DA) D1 and D2 receptors in nucleus accumbens in electroacupuncture analgesia (EAA) and the potentiation of EAA of rats induced by l-tetrahydropalmatine (l-THP), a dopamine receptor antagonist. METHODS: SK&F-38393 and quinpirole hydrochloride (Qui), highly selective agonists of D1 and D2 receptors, respectively were injected into nucleus accumbens of rats. RESULTS: SK&F-38393 (5 and 10 micrograms) attenuated the potentiation of EAA induced by l-THP, 10 micrograms SKF38393 attenuated EAA as well, while Qui (10 and 20 micrograms) had no effect on EAA and the potentiation of EAA induced by l-THP. CONCLUSION: D1 but not D2 receptor in nucleus accumbens play an important role in EAA and the potentiation of EAA induced by l-THP. (+info)A systematic review of randomized controlled trials of acupuncture for neck pain. (3/104)
OBJECTIVE: To establish whether there is evidence for or against the efficacy of acupuncture in the treatment of neck pain. METHODS: A systematic literature review was undertaken of studies that compared needle or laser acupuncture with a control procedure for the treatment of neck pain. Two reviewers independently extracted data concerning study methods, quality and outcome. RESULTS: Overall, the outcomes of 14 randomized controlled trials were equally balanced between positive and negative. Acupuncture was superior to waiting-list in one study, and either equal or superior to physiotherapy in three studies. Needle acupuncture was not superior to indistinguishable sham control in four out of five studies. Of the eight high-quality trials, five were negative. CONCLUSIONS: In conclusion, the hypothesis that acupuncture is efficacious in the treatment of neck pain is not based on the available evidence from sound clinical trials. Further studies are justified. (+info)A randomized trial of acupuncture as an adjunctive therapy in osteoarthritis of the knee. (4/104)
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy of acupuncture as an adjunctive therapy to standard care for the relief of pain and dysfunction in elderly patients with osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee. METHODS: Seventy-three patients with symptomatic OA of the knee were randomly assigned to treatment (acupuncture) or standard care (control). Analysis was performed on last score carried forward to account for patients who dropped out before completion. Patients self-scored Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) and Lequesne indices at baseline and at 4, 8 and 12 weeks. Patients in the control group were offered acupuncture treatment after 12 weeks. The data for these patients are pooled with those from the original acupuncture group for within-group analysis. RESULTS: Patients randomized to acupuncture improved on both WOMAC and Lequesne indices compared to those who received standard treatment alone. Significant differences on total WOMAC Scale were seen at 4 and 8 weeks. There appears to be a slight decline in effect at 4 weeks after cessation of treatment (12 weeks after first treatment). No adverse effects of acupuncture were reported. CONCLUSION: These data suggest that acupuncture is an effective and safe adjunctive therapy to conventional care for patients with OA of the knee. (+info)Acupuncture: pain management coupled to immune stimulation. (5/104)
The phenomenon of acupuncture is both complex and dynamic. Recent information demonstrates that acupuncture may exert its actions on pain and immune processes. The coupling of these two systems occurs via common signaling molecules, i.e., opioid peptides. In this regard, we surmise that opioid activation leads to the processing of opioid peptides from their precursor, proenkephalin, and the simultaneous release of antibacterial peptides contained within the precursor as well. Thus, central nervous system pain circuits may be coupled to immune enhancement. Furthermore, acupuncture needle manipulation elicited signal increases bilaterally in the region of the primary and secondary somatosensory corticies in human brain as determined by magnetic resonance imaging. The maps reveal marked signal decreases bilaterally in multiple limbic and deep gray structures including the nucleus accumbens, amygdala, hypothalamus, hippocampus, and ventral tegmental area. Taken together, we surmise a major central nervous system pathway as well as local pain and immune modulation during acupuncture. (+info)Acupuncture for osteoarthritis of the knee: a systematic review. (6/104)
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate trials of acupuncture for osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee, to assess the methodologic quality of the trials and determine whether low-quality trials are associated with positive outcomes, to document adverse effects, to identify patient or treatment characteristics associated with positive response, and to identify areas of future research. METHODS: Eight databases and 62 conference abstract series were searched. Randomized or quasi-randomized trials of all languages were included and evaluated for methodologic quality using the Jadad scale. Outcomes were pain, function, global improvement, and imaging. Data could not be pooled; therefore, a best-evidence synthesis was performed to determine the strength of evidence by control group. The adequacy of the acupuncture procedure was assessed by 2 acupuncturists trained in treating OA and blinded to study results. RESULTS: Seven trials representing 393 patients with knee OA were identified. For pain and function, there was limited evidence that acupuncture is more effective than being on a waiting list for treatment or having treatment as usual. For pain, there was strong evidence that real acupuncture is more effective than sham acupuncture; however, for function, there was inconclusive evidence that real acupuncture is more effective than sham acupuncture. There was insufficient evidence to determine whether the efficacy of acupuncture is similar to that of other treatments. CONCLUSION: The existing evidence suggests that acupuncture may play a role in the treatment of knee OA. Future research should define an optimal acupuncture treatment, measure quality of life, and assess acupuncture combined with other modalities. (+info)Randomised trial of acupuncture compared with conventional massage and "sham" laser acupuncture for treatment of chronic neck pain. (7/104)
OBJECTIVES: To compare the efficacy of acupuncture and conventional massage for the treatment of chronic neck pain. DESIGN: Prospective, randomised, placebo controlled trial. SETTING: Three outpatient departments in Germany. PARTICIPANTS: 177 patients aged 18-85 years with chronic neck pain. INTERVENTIONS: Patients were randomly allocated to five treatments over three weeks with acupuncture (56), massage (60), or "sham" laser acupuncture (61). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: PRIMARY OUTCOME MEASURE: maximum pain related to motion (visual analogue scale) irrespective of direction of movement one week after treatment. SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES: range of motion (3D ultrasound real time motion analyser), pain related to movement in six directions (visual analogue scale), pressure pain threshold (pressure algometer), changes of spontaneous pain, motion related pain, global complaints (seven point scale), and quality of life (SF-36). Assessments were performed before, during, and one week and three months after treatment. Patients' beliefs in treatment were assessed. RESULTS: One week after five treatments the acupuncture group showed a significantly greater improvement in motion related pain compared with massage (difference 24.22 (95% confidence interval 16.5 to 31.9), P=0.0052) but not compared with sham laser (17.28 (10.0 to 24.6), P=0.327). Differences between acupuncture and massage or sham laser were greater in the subgroup who had had pain for longer than five years (n=75) and in patients with myofascial pain syndrome (n=129). The acupuncture group had the best results in most secondary outcome measures. There were no differences in patients' beliefs in treatment. CONCLUSIONS: Acupuncture is an effective short term treatment for patients with chronic neck pain, but there is only limited evidence for long term effects after five treatments. (+info)Preoperative intradermal acupuncture reduces postoperative pain, nausea and vomiting, analgesic requirement, and sympathoadrenal responses. (8/104)
BACKGROUND: In a controlled and double-blind study, the authors tested the hypothesis that preoperative insertion of intradermal needles at acupoints 2.5 cm from the spinal vertebrae (bladder meridian) provide satisfactory postoperative analgesia. METHODS: The authors enrolled patients scheduled for elective upper and lower abdominal surgery. Before anesthesia, patients undergoing each type of surgery were randomly assigned to one of two groups: acupuncture (n = 50 and n = 39 for upper and lower abdominal surgery, respectively) or control (n = 48 and n = 38 for upper and lower abdominal surgery, respectively). In the acupuncture group, intradermal needles were inserted to the left and right of bladder meridian 18-24 and 20-26 in upper and lower abdominal surgery before induction of anesthesia, respectively. Postoperative analgesia was maintained with epidural morphine and bolus doses of intravenous morphine. Consumption of intravenous morphine was recorded. Incisional pain at rest and during coughing and deep visceral pain were recorded during recovery and for 4 days thereafter on a four-point verbal rating scale. We also evaluated time-dependent changes in plasma concentrations of cortisol and catecholamines. RESULTS: Starting from the recovery room, intradermal acupuncture increased the fraction of patients with good pain relief as compared with the control (P < 0.05). Consumption of supplemental intravenous morphine was reduced 50%, and the incidence of postoperative nausea was reduced 20-30% in the acupuncture patients who had undergone either upper or lower abdominal surgery (P < 0.01). Plasma cortisol and epinephrine concentrations were reduced 30-50% in the acupuncture group during recovery and on the first postoperative day (P < 0.01). CONCLUSION: Preoperative insertion of intradermal needles reduces postoperative pain, the analgesic requirement, and opioid-related side effects after both upper and lower abdominal surgery. Acupuncture analgesia also reduces the activation of the sympathoadrenal system that normally accompanies surgery. (+info)"Acupuncture is a theatrical placebo: the end of a myth" (PDF). Anesthesia & Analgesia. 116 (6): 1360-1363. doi:10.1213/ANE. ... For example, evidence on the effectiveness of acupuncture is "variable and inconsistent" for any condition,[2] but is generally ... "Acupuncture (PDQ®)". National Cancer Institute. 2005-09-23. Retrieved 15 Sep 2013.. ... acupuncture, Muti, Ifá, and traditional African medicine. ...
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Some authors believe that Hua Tuo may have discovered surgical analgesia by acupuncture, and that mafeisan either had nothing ... Lu GD; Needham J (2002). "Acupuncture and major surgery". Celestial lancets: a history and rationale of acupuncture and moxa. ... "Acupuncture Today. 9 (8). ISSN 1526-7784. Retrieved 2010-09-18.. *^ Wang Z; Ping C (1999). "Well-known medical scientists: Hua ... Nilsson E, Janssen PA (1961). "Neurolept-analgesia: an alternative to general anesthesia". Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica ...
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By producing analgesia and sedation, opioids may be appropriate in carefully selected patients with pain-associated insomnia.[ ... Cheuk, DK; Yeung, WF; Chung, KF; Wong, V (12 September 2012). "Acupuncture for insomnia". The Cochrane Database of Systematic ... It is unclear if acupuncture is useful.[123] ...
There is limited evidence that acupuncture might relive pain in cancer patients, but data so far is insufficient to recommend ... Typically, pain from liver metastases responds to chemotherapy and analgesia. However, in cases when chemotherapy is ... chiropractic or acupuncture. There is no evidence that any of these therapies are effective; they may be harmful, either ...
... adenosine has been implicated as a mediator of acupuncture analgesia Gorski, David H. (2014). "Integrative oncology: really the ... Acupuncture Mechanical deformation of the skin by acupuncture needles appears to result in the release of adenosine. A 2014 ... Antinociceptive effects of acupuncture require A1R activation Langevin, Helene (2014). "Acupuncture, Connective Tissue, and ... Acupuncture also has effects on local tissues, including mechanical stimulation of connective tissue, release of adenosine at ...
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... systematic review of randomised clinical trials with acupuncture, placebo acupuncture, and no acupuncture groups". BMJ. 338: ... The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends a pain ladder for managing analgesia. It was first described for use in cancer ... AcupunctureEdit. Acupuncture involves the insertion and manipulation of needles into specific points on the body to relieve ... How Can Acupuncture Help To Reduce Pain? *^ Wang SJ, Dai Z (2012). "[Efficacy observation of knee osteoarthritis treated with ...
Relaxation techniques, immersion in water, massage, and acupuncture may provide pain relief. Acupuncture and relaxation were ... Epidural analgesia is a generally safe and effective method of relieving pain in labour, but is associated with longer labour, ... Epidural analgesia has no statistically significant impact on the risk of caesarean section, and does not appear to have an ... Thorp, J.A.; Breedlove, G. (1996). "Epidural analgesia in labor: An evaluation of risks and benefits". Birth. 23 (2): 63-83. ...
In 2010, Nedergaard discovered the role of the adenosine molecule in acupuncture-induced analgesia. In 2013, Nedergaard ... "Acupuncture pain molecule pinpointed". BBC. Retrieved 18 February 2014. Konnikova, Maria (11 January 2014). "Goodnight. Sleep ...
Acupuncture treatment for pain: systematic review of randomised clinical trials with acupuncture, placebo acupuncture, and no ... Episodic analgesia may occur under special circumstances, such as in the excitement of sport or war: a soldier on the ... Chang, S-C; Hsu, C-H; Hsu, C-K; Yang, SS-D; Chang, S-J (2016). "The efficacy of acupuncture in managing patients with chronic ... Sedation and analgesia. Undertreatment of cancer pain in elderly patients. JAMA. 1998;279(23):1914-5. doi:10.1001/jama.279.23. ...
He was the inventor of patient-controlled analgesia (PCA), now commonly used post-operatively. Sechzer graduated from New ... He was one of the first Western physicians to incorporate Eastern medicine, worked to legitimize acupuncture into standard ...
... acupuncture analgesia MeSH E02.190.044.133 --- acupuncture, ear MeSH E02.190.044.244 --- electroacupuncture MeSH E02.190. ... 044.555 --- meridians MeSH E02.190.044.555.035 --- acupuncture points MeSH E02.190.044.588 --- moxibustion MeSH E02.190.488.505 ...
By producing analgesia and sedation, opioids may be appropriate in carefully selected patients with pain-associated insomnia. ... It is unclear if acupuncture is useful. A survey of 1.1 million residents in the United States found that those that reported ... 275-7. ISBN 978-0-306-47406-4. Cheuk, DK; Yeung, WF; Chung, KF; Wong, V (12 September 2012). "Acupuncture for insomnia". The ...
Obstetric analgesia in German clinics. Remifentanil as alternative to regional analgesia. Anaesthesist. 2011 Nov; 60(11):995- ... acupuncture and medical quality management (Bavarian chamber of physicians) as well as qualifications with respect to the ... Anesthesia and Analgesia 2004; 99: 718-727 P. Kranke, A. M. Morin, N. Roewer, H. Wulf, L. H. Eberhart. The efficacy and safety ... Anesthesia and Analgesia 2002; 95: 133-143 A. Schnabel, L. Eberhart, A. Morin, H. van Aken, N. Roewer, P. Kranke. Efficacy and ...
Lu Gwei-Djen and Joseph Needham suggest Hua Tuo may have discovered surgical analgesia by acupuncture, "quite apart from the ... If he employed acupuncture, it was also only in one or two places. As he instated the needle, he would instruct the patient, "I ... Your body will feel relaxed and you'll have a good appetite." Fan A was skilled at acupuncture and inserted the needles to ... If a sickness were concentrated internally where the effect of acupuncture needles and medicines could not reach it, [Hua Tuo] ...
... acupuncture analgesia MeSH E03.091.080 --- analgesia, epidural MeSH E03.091.110 --- analgesia, obstetrical MeSH E03.091.120 ... analgesia, patient-controlled MeSH E03.091.214 --- audioanalgesia MeSH E03.091.646 --- neuroleptanalgesia MeSH E03.091.823 --- ...
Inhaled analgesia can help to manage pain. This type of pain management is effective but may have some side effects. Some ... changing positions while in labor (stand, crouch, sit, walk, etc.) using a labor ball listening to music acupuncture More and ...
"Acupuncture analgesia: II. Clinical considerations" (PDF). Anesthesia and Analgesia. 106 (2): 611-21, table of contents. doi: ... Acupuncture does not seem to produce long-term benefits. While electrostimulation techniques such as TENS have been used for ... While acupuncture leads to improvements in pain relief, this improvement is small and may be of questionable importance. ... "Acupuncture for peripheral joint osteoarthritis". Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (1): CD001977. doi:10.1002/14651858. ...
... systematic review of randomised clinical trials with acupuncture, placebo acupuncture, and no acupuncture groups". BMJ. 338: ... Caraceni, A; Zecca, E; Martini, C; De Conno, F (June 1999). "Gabapentin as an adjuvant to opioid analgesia for neuropathic ... sham and no acupuncture. Acupuncture is believed by its followers to restore the energy balance in the body through stimulation ... Acupuncture involves the insertion and manipulation of needles into specific points on the body to relieve pain or for ...
CCK-8 antagonizes acupuncture analgesia. The individual differences of acupuncture analgesia are associated with inherited ... our understanding of how the brain processes acupuncture analgesia has undergone considerable development. Acupuncture ... Neural mechanism underlying acupuncture analgesia.. Zhao ZQ1.. Author information. 1. Institute of Neurobiology, Institutes of ... of acupuncture in patients occurs following acupuncture manipulation. Manual acupuncture (MA) is the insertion of an ...
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Interventions used in these trials included acupuncture, electro-acupuncture, transcutaneous nerve stimulation, laser ... Home , December 2004 - Volume 99 - Issue 6 , Stimulation of the Wrist Acupuncture Point P6 for Preventing... ... Anesthesia & Analgesia: December 2004 - Volume 99 - Issue 6 - p 1870. Technology, Computing, and Simulation: General Articles: ... Stimulation of the Wrist Acupuncture Point P6 for Preventing Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting. Lee, A; Done, M L ...
Acupuncture analgesia (AA) can be considered as a valid technique for providing surgical analgesia. The first successful ... Surgical analgesia is achieved via strong electrical stimulation of steel acupuncture needles inserted in selected acupuncture ... Electrical stimulation of selected acupuncture points can be used to induce surgical analgesia in small animals. The analgesia ... 5. Still J, Still V, Novak P, Dostalova M 1990a Ear-acupuncture analgesia in the cat. Scand J Acup & Electrother (Finland), 5, ...
Acupuncture is a safe and acceptable form of analgesia, but none of the examined therapies provided optimal acute analgesia. ... and no acupuncture groups. BMJ 2009; 338: a3115.. *8. Hopton A, MacPherson H. Acupuncture for chronic pain: is acupuncture more ... Acupuncture as analgesia for low back pain, ankle sprain and migraine in emergency departments: study protocol for a randomized ... Acupuncture for analgesia in the emergency department: a multicentre, randomised, equivalence and non-inferiority trial. ...
Acupuncture is a nonpharmacologic pain management modality that has been shown to provide superior analgesia for acute pain. ... Feasibility of Electro Auricular Acupuncture for Analgesia After ACL Surgery: The Feasibility of Patient Blinding and Effects ... Feasibility of Electro Auricular Acupuncture for Analgesia After ACL Surgery: The Feasibility of Patient Blinding and Effects ... Acupuncture research in regards to PONV has been fairly well established, however, studies about perioperative pain control and ...
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- Interventions used in these trials included acupuncture, electro-acupuncture, transcutaneous nerve stimulation, laser stimulation, acustimulation device and acupressure. (lww.com)
- I've read several things that say in comparative tests, acupressure actually works better than acupuncture (TENS on acupuncture points was, as you might expect, better still. (jwz.org)
- Although the anatomical locations are the same as the ACUPUNCTURE POINTS used in ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY (hence acu-), no needle or other acupuncture technique is employed in acupressure. (bioportfolio.com)
- Acupuncture and acupressure can reduce postoperative nausea and vomiting, as well as pain. (aerzteblatt.de)
- Three systematic reviews (two of high quality) were identified that reported the use of acupuncture and acupressure for impaired gastrointestinal function following surgery (Table 1, eTable 1 ). (aerzteblatt.de)
- A further eleven systematic reviews (three of high quality, and five of moderate quality) focused on treating postoperative nausea and vomiting through acupuncture and acupressure. (aerzteblatt.de)
- Several studies have shown that acupressure and acupuncture can help to relieve anxiety related to tests and procedures. (mskcc.org)
- Current oncology guidelines recommend acupuncture and acupressure for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV). (mskcc.org)
- Acupuncture is defined as the application of stimulation such as needling, moxibustion, cupping, and acupressure on specific sites of the body known as acupuncture points. (healthlinkbc.ca)
- We will compare (a) press needle acupuncture, (b) no treatment and (c) press plaster acupressure in a standardised anaesthetic setting. (biomedcentral.com)
- Comparing acupuncture with acupressure will provide insight into potential therapeutic differences between invasive and non-invasive acupuncture techniques. (biomedcentral.com)
- Sham acupuncture devices--practical advice for researchers. (semanticscholar.org)
- To assess the effect of acupuncture versus sham acupuncture on regulating the targeted metabolome of hypertensive patients. (bioportfolio.com)
- The research hypothesis is that acupuncture may be more effective than sham acupuncture to treat insomnia during pregnancy. (bioportfolio.com)
- End of treatment results showed that eight interventions: interferential therapy, acupuncture, TENS, pulsed electrical stimulation, balneotherapy, aerobic exercise, sham acupuncture, and muscle-strengthening exercise produced a statistically significant reduction in pain when compared with standard care. (nih.gov)
- The third group of patients received sham acupuncture at a point on the middle ear ( see Figure 1 ). (acupuncturetoday.com)
- Anxiety levels in patients receiving shen men , relaxation and sham acupuncture. (acupuncturetoday.com)
- Conclusion: Sham acupuncture may not be appropriate as a control intervention for assessing the effectiveness of acupuncture. (medworm.com)
- Choi 2011) The other two reviews found acupuncture to be as good as or better than drugs, but with no consistent advantage over sham acupuncture controls. (acupuncture.org.uk)
- Review methods Eligible studies were randomised controlled trials that compared needle acupuncture administered within one day of embryo transfer with sham acupuncture or no adjuvant treatment, with reported outcomes of at least one of clinical pregnancy, ongoing pregnancy, or live birth. (bmj.com)
- Trials with sham acupuncture and no adjuvant treatment as controls were pooled for the primary analysis. (bmj.com)
- Notice how much closer the groups have become when comparing true acupuncture with sham acupuncture. (scienceblogs.com)
- There's still a difference between true acupuncture and sham acupuncture! (scienceblogs.com)
- Epidural analgesia, when compared with other methods, provides superior analgesia for labour. (anaesthesiauk.com)
- There is no association between epidural analgesia and an increased risk of Caesarean delivery or post-partum backache. (anaesthesiauk.com)
- The analgesic effect of acupuncture during childbirth was assessed by comparing the need for other pain treatments (epidural analgesia using bupivacaine, pudendal nerve block, intramuscular meperidine, nitrous oxide/oxygen, intracutaneous sterile water injections) in 90 women given acupuncture (acupuncture group) with that in 90 women not given acupuncture (control group). (cognizantcommunication.com)
- Different ways to administer these drugs also can be included in multimodal analgesia (pain relief), these can include (but are not limited to) intravenous (into a vein) medications, epidural medications (around the spinal cord/nerves) and local blocks (giving medication at the site of the injury or to the nerves that go to that site). (vcahospitals.com)
- Acupuncture has been accepted to effectively treat chronic pain by inserting needles into the specific "acupuncture points" (acupoints) on the patient's body. (nih.gov)
- Analgesia produced by the insertion of Acupuncture Needles at certain Acupuncture Points on the body. (online-medical-dictionary.org)
- Surgical analgesia is achieved via strong electrical stimulation of steel acupuncture needles inserted in selected acupuncture points. (vin.com)
- Auricular projection zones for vertebral column, intestines and central nervous system, as well as so-called pre- and post-auricular zones were stimulated electrically (frequency 1-25 Hz, voltage up to 150 V, width of the bipolar impulses 0.2-0.6 msec) via steel acupuncture needles. (vin.com)
- In another study, analogous electrical stimulation was applied via needles inserted into the pre- and post-auricular zones, and acupuncture points BL23-24, GV2 (Bai Hui), GV6 and SP6 on the side of the body ipsilateral with the intended incision (Still, 1987). (vin.com)
- The most studied mechanism of stimulation of acupuncture points employs penetration of the skin by thin, solid, metallic needles, which are manipulated manually or by electrical stimulation. (healthy.net)
- After reviewing the existing body of knowledge, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently removed acupuncture needles from the category of "experimental medical devices" and now regulates them just as it does other devices, such as surgical scalpels and hypodermic syringes, under good manufacturing practices and single-use standards of sterility. (healthy.net)
- Here, we found that low-frequency median nerve stimulation (MNS) through acupuncture needles at the PC6 (Neiguan) acupoint (MNS-PC6) induced an antinociceptive effect that engaged this mechanism. (pnas.org)
- Acupuncture involves inserting thin needles at different, specific points in the body with the goal of bringing the body's energy back into balance. (gainesville.com)
- Simply defined, acupuncture is a treatment method aimed at eliciting a response (such as pain relief) through insertion of very fine needles in the body surface at sites called acupuncture points. (portsmouthhospital.com)
- Acupuncture needles are most often inserted at specific locations on the skin called acupuncture points. (portsmouthhospital.com)
- However, there are needles breaking the skin in acupuncture. (scienceblogs.com)
- Writing in Anesthesia and Analgesia, they said 53 percent of patients given true acupuncture were helped, compared to 45 percent receiving sham therapy involving needles inserted in non-medical positions. (scienceblogs.com)
- One of the barriers to treatment with acupuncture is getting people to understand that while needles are used, it is not a painful experience," Gan said. (scienceblogs.com)
- Longtime readers might remember that I've been writing about the utter ridiculousness and lack of science behind "battlefield acupuncture" and how it makes no sense to be sticking recently wounded soldiers with needles under battlefield conditions. (scienceblogs.com)
- Battlefield acupuncture, a form of auricular or ear acupuncture so named because the tiny needles can be administered quickly in combat without removing so much as a helmet, has been around for more than 15 years. (scienceblogs.com)
- Basically, the ears are the focus, and auricular acupuncture needles are considerably smaller than standard acupuncture needles. (scienceblogs.com)
- Twelve press needles and press plasters are to be administered preoperatively at seven acupuncture points. (biomedcentral.com)
- 7. Madsen MV, Gotzsche PC, Hrobjartsson A. Acupuncture treatment for pain: systematic review of randomised clinical trials with acupuncture, placebo acupuncture, and no acupuncture groups. (mja.com.au)
- 8. Hopton A, MacPherson H. Acupuncture for chronic pain: is acupuncture more than an effective placebo? (mja.com.au)
- In 2008, a meta analysis looked at randomized controlled studies and found that while acupuncture was shown to decrease pain, there were limitations including credible placebo or sham intervention, and thus, blinding. (clinicaltrials.gov)
- Brain activity associated with expectancy-enhanced placebo analgesia as measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging. (semanticscholar.org)
- In most of these studies acupuncture is no better than sham/placebo. (painweek.org)
- It seems that acupuncture is little or no more than a theatrical placebo. (jwz.org)
- The aim of this study was to compare the effect of acupuncture and placebo acupuncture for the control of pain, edema, and trismus following the extraction of third molars and control of p. (bioportfolio.com)
- Placebo is associated with robust analgesia [ 85 ] enhanced by expectation for pain relief. (chiro.org)
- however, there is no evidence that TENS provides more analgesia than placebo. (anaesthesiauk.com)
- The outcome of all this research is that acupuncture has no effects that are big enough to be of noticeable benefit to patients, and it is, in all probablity, just a theatrical placebo. (dcscience.net)
- around 95% of the treatments he and his colleagues examined - in fields as diverse as acupuncture, herbal medicine, homeopathy and reflexology - are statistically indistinguishable from placebo treatments. (jonbarron.org)
- When compared to dummy treatments of placebo, acupuncture is effective in treatment of chronic pain. (news-medical.net)
- When I actually bothered to do that, I soon realized that the evidence that acupuncture is anything more than a highly elaborate placebo is shockingly thin. (scienceblogs.com)
- A biological basis for acupuncture, or more evidence for a placebo effect? (discovermagazine.com)
- The aim of the present work was to assess adverse effects of acupuncture on the pregnancy, mother, delivery and the fetus/neonate in comparison with women that received stabilising exercises as adjunct to standard treatment or standard treatment alone. (biomedcentral.com)
- Aim of the study is to investigate specific effects of acupuncture points. (bioportfolio.com)
- We conclude that the treatment effects of acupuncture may be underpinned by its intervention in the dysregulated glutamate system. (frontiersin.org)
- Effects of acupuncture in moderate, stable angina pectoris: a controlled study. (ahajournals.org)
- Experimental evidence in animal models of cardiovascular disease supports the concept that cardiovascular effects of acupuncture are mediated by inhibition of central sympathetic neural outflow, perhaps through release of endogenous opioids ( 4 , 11 , 30 ). (physiology.org)
- Systematic reviews have come up with conflicting conclusions regarding the effects of acupuncture treatment for rheumatoid arthritis. (acupuncture.org.uk)
- Effects of acupuncture. (bmj.com)
- The summary includes a brief history of acupuncture practice, a review of laboratory and animal studies, the results of clinical observations and trials, and possible side effects of acupuncture therapy. (healthlinkbc.ca)
- The aim of most acupuncture clinical observation and clinical trials in cancer patients has been to evaluate the effects of acupuncture on symptom management. (healthlinkbc.ca)
- The most convincing research data on the effects of acupuncture in cancer patients have emerged from studies of the management of chemotherapy -induced N/V. (healthlinkbc.ca)
- The gist is this: Nanna Goldman from the University of Rochester Medical Center claims to have found a biological explanation for the pain-relieving effects of acupuncture. (discovermagazine.com)
- From this point on, several scientists started investigating possible effects of acupuncture. (biomedcentral.com)
- The outcome of this research, we propose, is that the benefits of acupuncture are likely nonexistent, or at best are too small and too transient to be of any clinical significance. (jwz.org)
- There is also a considerable body of international literature on the risks and benefits of acupuncture, and the World Health Organization lists a variety of medical conditions that may benefit from the use of acupuncture or moxibustion. (healthy.net)
- To address important issues regarding acupuncture, the NIH Office of Alternative Medicine and the NIH Office of Medical Applications of Research organized a 2 1 / 2 -day conference to evaluate the scientific and medical data on the uses, risks, and benefits of acupuncture procedures for a variety of conditions. (healthy.net)
- Understanding the Benefits of Acupuncture Treatment for Cancer Pain Management. (bioportfolio.com)
- In the 20 years since he started with the university, a growing number of studies and continued research back the anecdotal benefits of acupuncture. (gainesville.com)
- One possible reason for the benefits of acupuncture: Studies show that it causes us to release feel-good hormones, called endorphins, that suppress pain. (sciencebasedmedicine.org)
- There is significant evidence that endogenous opioids are central to the experience of pain and analgesia. (semanticscholar.org)
- A diverse array of neurotransmitters and receptors contribute to acupuncture analgesia including opioids, glutamate and NMDA receptors, serotonin and cholecystokinins. (wikipedia.org)
- More recent work supports the concept that acupuncture activates the endogenous opioids in the central nervous system, which, in turn, inhibit central sympathetic neural outflow ( 4 , 7 ). (physiology.org)
- Evidence that acupuncture increases central nervous system opioids includes early work in a mouse model of pain, in which electroacupuncture at the large intestine 4 (Li4) site produced analgesia ( 18 ). (physiology.org)
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- To test this theory, two researchers from the Yale University School of Medicine - Drs. Shu-Ming Wang and Zeev N. Kain - assembled a group of 55 patients for a blinded, randomized controlled trial to ascertain whether auricular acupuncture could decrease acute anxiety. (acupuncturetoday.com)
- The first group received bilateral auricular acupuncture at the shen men point, on the upper half of the ear near the inferior lateral wall of the triangular fossa. (acupuncturetoday.com)
- Based upon these results, the researchers theorized that auricular acupuncture could have a variety of applications for reducing stress and anxiety. (acupuncturetoday.com)
- Although preoperative anxiety and the anxiety of healthy volunteers may be different, it can be hypothesized that auricular acupuncture may be equally effective for the reduction of anxiety by patients undergoing surgery," they wrote. (acupuncturetoday.com)
- This is of particular importance as auricular acupuncture is technically easy, reliable, inexpensive, and is associated with minimal adverse affects. (acupuncturetoday.com)
- It should also be noted that "battlefield acupuncture" is somewhat different than regular acupuncture in that it is almost always primarily auricular acupuncture. (scienceblogs.com)
- Auricular acupuncture" is based on a physiological principle that makes every bit as much sense as reflexology, and I mean that in the worst way possible. (scienceblogs.com)
- The treatment of exogenous obesity employing auricular acupuncture. (healthy.net)
- The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of electroacupuncture (EA) on postoperative pain and provide additional information as to whether acupuncture might serve as an important adjuvant for pain control. (bmj.com)
- Effects of electroacupuncture versus manual acupuncture on the human brain as measured by fMRI. (semanticscholar.org)
- Also, it involved electroacupuncture, which they characterize as "essentially transdermal electrical nerve stimulation masquerading as acupuncture. (jwz.org)
- Acupuncture and other methods that stimulate acupuncture points, such as electroacupuncture, auricular acu. (bioportfolio.com)
- Acupuncture for chronic pain: individual patient data meta-analysis. (mja.com.au)
- 1) Thirty patients suffering from chronic low back pain were treated with acupuncture 30 minutes after the oral administration of 4.0 grams of DPA. (nih.gov)
- however, multiple recent randomized controlled trials of acupuncture in chronic pain disorders have largely shown mixed findings. (painweek.org)
- The effect of patient expectations on outcomes in four randomized controlled trials of acupuncture in patients with chronic pain. (wikipedia.org)
- Acupuncture is effective in treating chronic pain and some symptoms associated with cancer treatment. (mskcc.org)
- NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Acupuncture won't improve chronic knee pain in middle-aged people, researchers say. (medworm.com)
- Classic Chinese Acupuncture versus Different Types of Control Groups for the Treatment of Chronic Pain: Review of Randomized Controlled Trials (2000-2018). (medworm.com)
- Acupuncture effectiveness in controlling chronic pain is still limited due to the low quality of the studies published. (medworm.com)
- The use of acupuncture for treating chronic pain of the head and face has been studied. (news-medical.net)
- Chronic facial pain, including craniomandibular disorders of muscular origin may also be treated with acupuncture. (news-medical.net)
- Irritable colon syndrome and chronic ulcerative colitis can be treated with acupuncture as a complementary or alternative therapeutic measure. (news-medical.net)
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Acupuncture works better than drugs like aspirin to reduce the severity and frequency of chronic headaches, U.S. researchers reported on Monday. (scienceblogs.com)
- A review of studies involving nearly 4,000 patients with migraine, tension headache and other forms of chronic headache showed that that 62 percent of the acupuncture patients reported headache relief compared to 45 percent of people taking medications, the team at Duke University found. (scienceblogs.com)
- This analysis reinforces that acupuncture also is a successful source of relief from chronic headaches. (scienceblogs.com)
- Their ears sparkled in the name of medicine: This was a hands-on workshop on battlefield acupuncture, an alternative therapy that's vying to become a standard practice of care at Defense Department and Veteran Affairs medical centers for acute and chronic pain. (scienceblogs.com)
- A debate in Anesthesia and Analgesia. (bodyinmind.org)
- In the last decade, profound studies on neural mechanisms underlying acupuncture analgesia predominately focus on cellular and molecular substrate and functional brain imaging and have developed rapidly. (nih.gov)
- The analgesia is achieved via activation of the endogenous pain-relieving mechanisms. (vin.com)
- Neural substrates, experimental evidences and functional hypothesis of acupuncture mechanisms. (semanticscholar.org)
- The underlying mechanisms of varying analgesia need to be explored in order to develop an effective strategy to potentiate the insufficient pain relief of the poor responders to EA. (grantome.com)
- the current proposal will study the underlying mechanisms of variable analgesic response to acupuncture in treating sickle pain in order to enhance the overall effectiveness of acupuncture from bench to bedside in SCD. (grantome.com)
- The results from this translational research will fill a void in understanding mechanisms of non-pharmacological approaches in SCD and largely advance the application of acupuncture in sickle pain management. (grantome.com)
- Over the years, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has funded a variety of research projects on acupuncture, including studies on the mechanisms by which acupuncture may have its effects, as well as clinical trials and other studies. (healthy.net)
- Further preclinical and clinical studies are needed to clarify the possible mechanisms of acupuncture in these neuropsychiatric disorders and to establish protocols for treatment guidelines. (frontiersin.org)
- Neurological mechanisms II: segmental analgesia 5. (jcm.co.uk)
- Neurological mechanisms III: extrasegmental analgesia 6. (jcm.co.uk)
- Researchers are continuing to examine the mechanisms by which acupuncture exerts these effects. (mskcc.org)
- Acupuncture has been practiced for thousands of years, although it is only in the past century that science has worked to unravel the mechanisms behind its use. (dovepress.com)
- Here we review the history, mechanisms of action, and use of acupuncture to treat veterinary patients and laboratory animals. (dovepress.com)
- Keep in mind that pain research is a constantly evolving topic, and more is being learned each year about the mechanisms of pain relief via acupuncture. (chriskresser.com)
- Laboratory and animal studies exploring the mechanisms of acupuncture for cancer treatment have focused mainly on the role of acupuncture in the activation of neurohormonal pathways and immunomodulation. (healthlinkbc.ca)
- 7 More evidence is provided by two trials 8 , 9 which suggest that the perioperative administration of acupuncture may be a useful adjunct for postoperative analgesia. (bmj.com)
- Randomized controlled trials [ 10 - 14 ], two systematic reviews [ 15 , 16 ] as well as the European guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of PGP have concluded that acupuncture is useful for treatment of PGP and low back pain, LBP during pregnancy. (biomedcentral.com)
- Acupuncture will be applied according to Standards for Reporting Interventions in Clinical Trials of Acupuncture (STRICTA). (drmarc.co)
- The clinical potential for adenosine (given intravenously), or A 1 R ligands (given systemically or spinally) to produce analgesia in humans was supported by earlier trials, but more recent, larger controlled trials have generally not demonstrated analgesic activity for postoperative pain. (springer.com)
- Acupuncture, one of the most popular CAM interventions, showed some favourable effects over artificial tears for dry eye in several randomised controlled trials (RCTs). (bioportfolio.com)
- Type and frequency of side effects during PC6 acupuncture: observations from therapists and patients participating in clinical efficacy trials of acupuncture. (bioportfolio.com)
- In 2006, a systematic review of veterinary acupuncture found "no compelling evidence to recommend or reject acupuncture for any condition in domestic animals", citing trials with, on average, low methodological quality or trials that are in need of independent replication. (wikipedia.org)
- A number of clinical trials support the use of acupuncture in relieving pain, nausea and vomiting, dry mouth, fatigue, and hot flashes resulting from cancer treatments. (mskcc.org)
- Several clinical trials showed that acupuncture is effective in alleviating pain, including joint or nerve pain associated with some cancer treatments. (mskcc.org)
- Several clinical trials in cancer patients and other populations suggest that acupuncture improves sleep. (mskcc.org)
- Several clinical trials show that acupuncture reduces fatigue, including cancer-related fatigue. (mskcc.org)
- A prespecified subgroup analysis restricted to the three trials with the higher rates of clinical pregnancy in the control group, however, suggested a smaller non-significant benefit of acupuncture (odds ratio 1.24, 0.86 to 1.77). (bmj.com)
- Many trials have demonstrated that acupuncture does have some pain-relieving effects - that is not in doubt. (discovermagazine.com)
- Diverse signal molecules contribute to mediating acupuncture analgesia, such as opioid peptides (mu-, delta- and kappa-receptors), glutamate (NMDA and AMPA/KA receptors), 5-hydroxytryptamine, and cholecystokinin octapeptide. (nih.gov)
- Among these, the opioid peptides and their receptors in Arc-PAG-NRM-spinal dorsal horn pathway play a pivotal role in mediating acupuncture analgesia. (nih.gov)
- 6 A meta-analysis of 15 RCTs comparing acupuncture with sham control in the management of postoperative pain showed that acupuncture decreased both pain intensity and opioid consumption up to 72 h after surgery. (bmj.com)
- This issue of Veterinary Clinics: Small Animal Practice, edited by Dr. Ciara Barr and Dr. Giacomo Gianotti, focuses on Alternatives to Opioid Analgesia in Small Animal Anesthesia. (elsevier.com)
- Meperidine (pethidine) is the most frequently used opioid for labour analgesia. (anaesthesiauk.com)
- In further experiments, microinjection of naloxone or antibodies to β-endorphins into central analgesic sites, such as the periaqueductal grey, was found to block acupuncture-induced analgesia, consistent with a central nervous system location of opioid receptors involved in acupuncture analgesia ( 18 , 29 ). (physiology.org)
- Mice deficient in opiate receptors did not experience acupuncture-mediated analgesia [ 7 ], which confirms the opioid-related mechanism of acupuncture-analgesia. (biomedcentral.com)
- To investigate the analgesic effect of acupuncture (AP) or micro- dose pharmacopuncture (PA), using carprofen or morphine , in bitches undergoing ovariohysterectomy (OHE). (bvsalud.org)
- A small analgesic effect of acupuncture was found, which seems to lack clinical relevance and cannot be clearly distinguished from bias… Our findings question both the traditional foundation of acupuncture, which is based on the existence of meridians and Qi sensations, and the prevailing hypothesis that acupuncture has an important effect on pain in general. (discovermagazine.com)
- Acupuncture Analgesia: Therapy or Sham? (painweek.org)
- surgery were randomly divided into four groups (n=20): C group (propofol only group), F group (propofol + flumazenil group), EA group (propofol + electro-acupuncture group), and EA+F group (propofol + electro-acupuncture + flumazenil group). (bioportfolio.com)
- The first paper was from 1977 and was called " Increased cerebrospinal fluid levels of endorphins after electro-acupuncture . (sciencebasedmedicine.org)
- It is always ELECTRO acupuncture that sometimes results in an endorphin release. (sciencebasedmedicine.org)
- Studies in animals and humans have shown that acupuncture can stimulate pain relief, and reduce stress, anxiety, and depression. (mskcc.org)
- Research has shown that acupuncture is little more than such a straw. (dcscience.net)
- According to the World Health Organization report on the efficacy of acupuncture , studies have shown that acupuncture is effective in inducing analgesia, protecting the body against infections and regulating various physiological functions. (news-medical.net)
- 3 However, few studies have evaluated the potential contribution of acupuncture to the treatment of postoperative pain. (bmj.com)
- Acupuncture or pharmacopuncture were equally effective as morphine or carprofen to control postoperative pain in bitches undergoing ovariohysterectomy. (bvsalud.org)
- Studies have shown benefit with acupuncture for postoperative pain, sleep, nausea and vomiting, hot flashes, peripheral neuropathy, and other side effects caused by radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy. (mskcc.org)
- Acupuncture analgesia to relieve postoperative pain is well studied and proven in studies. (news-medical.net)
- Acupuncture helps relieve postoperative pain from various dental procedures, including tooth extraction, pulp devitalization and periodontitis. (news-medical.net)
- We report on the design and implementation of a study protocol entitled Acupuncture randomised trial for post anaesthetic recovery and postoperative pain - a pilot study ( ACUARP ) designed to investigate the effectiveness of acupuncture therapy performed in the perioperative period on post anaesthetic recovery and postoperative pain. (biomedcentral.com)
- For achieving an optimised management of postoperative pain and PONV, acupuncture may be a hitherto underestimated option. (biomedcentral.com)
- 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)
- For example, evidence on the effectiveness of acupuncture is "variable and inconsistent" for any condition, but is generally safe when done by an appropriately trained practitioner. (wikipedia.org)
- In this context, we designed a multi-center randomized controlled trial, comparing acupuncture treatment and artificial tear drop with immunoassay for the change of tear cytokine concentration, cost effectiveness study and qualitative research in a mixed method approach. (bioportfolio.com)
- Effectiveness of acupuncture in postpartum depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis. (bioportfolio.com)
- To assess the clinical effectiveness of acupuncture in the treatment of postpartum depression (PPD). (bioportfolio.com)
- To compare the effectiveness of acupuncture with other relevant physical treatments for alleviating pain due to knee osteoarthritis. (nih.gov)
- Clinical research into the effectiveness of acupuncture 10. (jcm.co.uk)
- Information about acupuncture, including safety and effectiveness as well as tips on finding a qualified practitioner and resources for more information. (medworm.com)
- The effectiveness of acupuncture analgesia has already been established in clinical studies. (news-medical.net)
- Acupuncture analgesia is manifested only when the intricate feeling (soreness, numbness, heaviness and distension) of acupuncture in patients occurs following acupuncture manipulation. (nih.gov)
- 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)
- Patients will have ATP acupuncture (8 ear points - Hypothalamus, Amygdala, Hippocampus, Prefrontal Cortex, Point Zero, Shen Men, Insula, Vagus) bilaterally with electrostimulation at Shen men and Hypothalamus at 30 hz. (clinicaltrials.gov)
- 2) In 56 patients, tooth extraction was performed under acupuncture anesthesia: 18 had received 4.0 gram of DPA (P.O.) 30 minutes earlier. (nih.gov)
- Cardiorespiratory, pulmonary and electrolyte complications are seldom reported compared to patients having received general chemical analgesia. (dynamicchiropractic.com)
- Apprehensive, tense, anxious patients are much less likely to be candidates for acupuncture analgesia. (dynamicchiropractic.com)
- In selecting patients for acupuncture analgesia, it is recommended the patient be described the actual surgical procedure to avoid suddenly developed apprehensions. (dynamicchiropractic.com)
- Evidence suggests that acupuncture is effective for pain relief, yet it is rarely practiced in the ED. The current study aims to assess the efficacy of acupuncture for providing effective analgesia to patients presenting with acute low back pain, migraine and ankle sprain at the EDs of four hospitals in Melbourne, Australia. (drmarc.co)
- The study is a multi-site, randomized, assessor-blinded, controlled trial of acupuncture analgesia in patients who present to an ED with low back pain, migraine or ankle sprain. (drmarc.co)
- Patients will be block randomized to receive either acupuncture alone, acupuncture as an adjunct to pharmacotherapy or pharmacotherapy alone. (drmarc.co)
- The results of this study will determine if acupuncture, alone or as an adjunct to pharmacotherapy provides effective, safe and acceptable pain relief for patients presenting to EDs with acute back pain, migraine or ankle sprain. (drmarc.co)
- Acupuncture has been used by millions of American patients and performed by thousands of physicians, dentists, acupuncturists, and other practitioners for relief or prevention of pain and for a variety of health conditions. (healthy.net)
- From October 1973 to May 1975 cardiae surgery with extracorporal circulation using Acupuncture as Analgesia was performed in 131 patients in the surgical clinic of the University of Giessen. (meta.org)
- A descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out in 60 patients attended in the menstrual regulation department of "Josué País García" University Polyclinic of Santiago de Cuba, from April to June 2009, with the purpose of evaluating the results of acupuncture analgesia used to treat these females. (sld.cu)
- Jage J, Bey T. Postoperative analgesia in patients with substance use disorders: part I. Acute Pain. (springer.com)
- This article summarizes the current evidence regarding the use of acupuncture for pain management in cancer patients. (bioportfolio.com)
- The purpose of this study is to see whether acupuncture may help patients recover from colon cancer surgery. (bioportfolio.com)
- Sixteen adult patients (8 males and 8 females) with severe sickle cell painful crisis were given acupuncture for pain relief. (who.int)
- Our group has tried acupuncture previously in patients with angina pectoris. (ahajournals.org)
- Effect of acupuncture in patients with angina pectoris. (ahajournals.org)
- Acupuncture has been used to treat angina in patients with coronary artery disease and to lower blood pressure in patients with hypertension ( 20 , 25 ). (physiology.org)
- In patients with abnormal gastrointestinal activity, acupuncture can improve motility, ease the passing of flatus, and lead to earlier defecation. (aerzteblatt.de)
- Acupuncture treatments are generally safe and well tolerated by most patients, including pediatric patients and the elderly. (mskcc.org)
- Studies in patients with peripheral neuropathy show that acupuncture improves nerve signaling. (mskcc.org)
- Moreover, many popular acupuncture textbooks have theorized that stimulating ear acupoints in and of themselves can help patients relax. (acupuncturetoday.com)
- The study found that while treatment did not produce any significant physiological changes, subjects who received acupuncture at a particular point did experience a profound change in their behavioral anxiety levels - an effect that, the researchers theorize, could help reduce the levels of pain and stress in patients undergoing surgery. (acupuncturetoday.com)
- The medical mission is to provide the latest innovative acupuncture therapy techniques to patients who have not responded well to traditional Western medicine. (scienceblogs.com)
- The interventions in both studies had a fairly modest effect size with wide confidence intervals, which implies considerable variability in the responses to skin injury and analgesia. (cmaj.ca)
- Acupuncture and related interventions for the treatment of symptoms associated with carpal tunnel syndrome. (bioportfolio.com)
- both interventions were statistically significantly better than standard care, with acupuncture being statistically significantly better than muscle-strengthening exercise (standardised mean difference: 0.49, 95% credible interval 0.00-0.98). (nih.gov)
- It appears likely that some people may benefit from acupuncture treatment,(Lao 2010) but it is not known what proportion this may be, and to what degree and how acupuncture would compare to other possible interventions. (acupuncture.org.uk)
- In electrical acupuncture (EA), a stimulating current via the inserted needle is delivered to acupoints. (nih.gov)
- Acupuncture analgesia is essentially a manifestation of integrative processes at different levels in the CNS between afferent impulses from pain regions and impulses from acupoints. (nih.gov)
- Acupuncture and analgesia: clinical applications and main acupoints/Acupuntura e analgesia: aplicacoes clinicas e principais acupontos. (thefreelibrary.com)
- In conclusion, acupuncture at traditional acupoints, nonacupoints, and no-needle acupuncture does not modulate baseline MSNA or MSNA responses to mental stress in normal humans. (physiology.org)
- Neural Regeneration Research) Hao Zhang and colleagues from China Rehabilitation Research Center found that acupuncture at the Yongquan acupoints induced stronger neuronal activity than acupuncture at the sham acupoints shown on positron emission tomography. (medworm.com)
- The above findings show that DPA has an enhancing effect on acupuncture analgesia and anesthesia in clinical practice. (nih.gov)
- While it is Chinese acupuncture that has taken the lead in the practice of Oriental medicine in the west, interest is increasing in some of the other traditions and a growing movement in Japanese acupuncture is beginning to emerge. (qi-journal.com)
- OBJECTIVE: To explore how contraindications to the use of acupuncture during pregnancy are managed in clinical practice. (rhizome.net.nz)
- As a result, more research has been done on acupuncture than on just about any other fringe practice. (jwz.org)
- The practice of acupuncture to treat identifiable pathophysiological conditions in American medicine was rare until the visit of President Nixon to China in 1972. (healthy.net)
- Stimulation of these areas by moxibustion, pressure, heat, and lasers is used in acupuncture practice, but due to the paucity of studies, these techniques are more difficult to evaluate. (healthy.net)
- Establishing anatomical criteria for veterinary acupuncture atlases in keeping with the human template will create congruence across species, benefiting both research and practice. (mdpi.com)
- Group acupuncture is a growing and cost-effective method for delivering acupuncture in the United States and is the practice model in China. (bioportfolio.com)
- Veterinary acupuncture is the practice of performing acupuncture on animals. (wikipedia.org)
- This book is a clear and practical introductory guide to the practice of medical acupuncture. (jcm.co.uk)
- More than 40 states and the District of Columbia have laws regulating acupuncture practice. (healthlinkbc.ca)
- Therefore, well-designed RCTs are needed to establish the efficacy of acupuncture for dry eye. (bioportfolio.com)
- Efficacy of Combined Treatment with Acupuncture and Bee Venom Acupuncture As an Adjunctive Treatment for Parkinson's Disease. (bioportfolio.com)
- The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of acupuncture and bee venom acupuncture (BVA) for idiopathic Parkinson's disease (IPD) through a sham-controlled trial. (bioportfolio.com)
- In this review, we investigate the current evidence for the treatment efficacy of acupuncture in depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, and AD. (frontiersin.org)
- Despite widespread use, its efficacy has been questioned and it has been suggested that it provides merely sedation rather than analgesia in labour. (anaesthesiauk.com)
- Metrological analysis for efficacy of acupuncture on angina pectoris. (ahajournals.org)
- So what do you do if you're a CAM believer but can't find studies that strongly support the efficacy of your favorite CAM modality, like acupuncture. (scienceblogs.com)
- Experimental evidence includes Bishko's work in Vienna where he demonstrated significant pain relief following low power HeNe and infra-red laser stimulation of acupuncture points. (chiro.org)
- All three reviews concluded that the stimulation of acupuncture points can improve motility and lead to both shorter time to first flatus and earlier defecation after surgery. (aerzteblatt.de)
- About a year ago the dedicated folks at the Marine Stranding and Rescue Center in Virginia Beach, VA brought two sea turtles in to a clinic where I was working for evaluation and possible acupuncture treatments. (jwz.org)
- As a summary of the current available research, the network meta-analysis results indicate that acupuncture can be considered as one of the more effective physical treatments for alleviating osteoarthritis knee pain in the short-term. (nih.gov)
- In 2009, a review on canine arthritis found "weak or no evidence in support of" various treatments, including acupuncture. (wikipedia.org)
- Acupuncture treatments are used to promote the flow and balance of Qi to relieve symptoms. (mskcc.org)
- More than 10 million acupuncture treatments are administered annually in the US alone. (portsmouthhospital.com)
- 2 The early treatments involved not only the puncture of the skin, but were also characterized by blood-letting and were quite different from modern-day acupuncture. (dovepress.com)
- 4 - 17 Neurological disorders such as stroke and Parkinson's disease have also been shown to benefit from acupuncture treatments. (dovepress.com)
- Only those acupuncture techniques that have a very high success rate, usually successful during the initial treatments and are cost effective will be employed. (scienceblogs.com)
- Previous publications indicate that acupuncture is efficient for the treatment of pelvic girdle pain, PGP, in pregnant women. (biomedcentral.com)
- However, the use of acupuncture for PGP is rare due to insufficient documentation of adverse effects of this treatment in this specific condition. (biomedcentral.com)
- They were randomly assigned to standard treatment plus acupuncture (n = 125), standard treatment plus specific stabilising exercises (n = 131) or to standard treatment alone (n = 130) for 6 weeks. (biomedcentral.com)
- Acupuncture that may be considered strong was used and treatment was started as early as in the second trimester of pregnancy. (biomedcentral.com)
- The results will also identify the impact that acupuncture treatment may have upon health resource utilisation in the ED setting. (drmarc.co)
- The use of abdominal and blood invigorating points reflected diverse treatment strategies within acupuncture textbooks. (rhizome.net.nz)
- I had acupuncture years ago as treatment for RSI, and my experience was exactly this: early rapid improvement in symptoms that slows down and reaches a plateau. (jwz.org)
- Thus, there are a variety of approaches to diagnosis and treatment in American acupuncture that incorporate medical traditions from China, Japan, Korea, and other countries. (healthy.net)
- acupuncture is more effective than artificial tear drop in the treatment of dry eye. (bioportfolio.com)
- Through this kind of mixed method approaches, various compartments, consisting acupuncture treatment effects are able to be revealed totally. (bioportfolio.com)
- Acupuncture is widely used for treatment of insomnia. (bioportfolio.com)
- During IVF treatment, acupuncture at the time of embryo transfer may improve the pregnancy rate. (bioportfolio.com)
- Finally, we discuss the ways in which acupuncture treatment can potentially modulate glutamate receptors and excitatory amino acid transporters. (frontiersin.org)
- New University of Florida equine acupuncture center in northwest Marion County will focus on treatment, education and research of the ancient healing art. (gainesville.com)
- These results suggest that acupuncture may provide a novel, potential treatment strategy for alcohol use disorder by direct activation of the brain pathway. (sciencemag.org)
- The flow of information from the East to the West regarding animal treatment, including acupuncture, is thought to have started from Mesopotamia around 300 BC. (wikipedia.org)
- The text covers issues of safety, different approaches to acupuncture, basic point information, clinical issues and the application of acupuncture in clinical conditions, especially in the treatment of pain. (jcm.co.uk)
- Other acupuncture techniques Section IV: Treatment manual 15. (jcm.co.uk)
- A wide variety of treatment methods, approaches, techniques, styles, and theoretical frameworks exist within the very broad scope of the term acupuncture. (portsmouthhospital.com)
- Acupuncture is beneficial in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis as well. (news-medical.net)
- Compared to standard treatment with drugs like allopurinol, acupuncture has been shown to be effective in gout as well. (news-medical.net)
- There is preliminary evidence to support acupuncture as an effective treatment for endometriosis, with one small sham controlled trial (Wayne 2008) and a few comparative studies against Western medication (Yan 2008, Xia 2006, Sun 2006), though further research is needed to confirm this. (acupuncture.org.uk)
- As the body of literature supporting the use of acupuncture as an effective treatment modality has grown, the use of this integrative therapeutic has increased. (dovepress.com)
- There are thousands of studies that support acupuncture as a proven treatment for a wide variety of ailments. (dovepress.com)
- 18 The National Institutes of Health convened a Consensus Development Conference on Acupuncture in 1997 and issued a statement of support for several conditions in which acupuncture may be a useful adjunct treatment. (dovepress.com)
- Given the vast body of literature supporting the use of acupuncture therapy as a treatment for a defined list of ailments, we should understand the mechanism of action of acupuncture. (dovepress.com)
- Objective To evaluate whether acupuncture improves rates of pregnancy and live birth when used as an adjuvant treatment to embryo transfer in women undergoing in vitro fertilisation. (bmj.com)
- This cancer information summary provides an overview of the use of acupuncture as a treatment for individuals with cancer or cancer-related disorders. (healthlinkbc.ca)
- diseases of pregnancy (morning sickness, threatened miscarriage, oedema, retention of urine etc.) with a section on acupuncture and herbal treatment in midwifery, iv. (jcm.co.uk)
- Each of these disorders is analysed as to its possible aetiology and pathology, differentiation, acupuncture and herbal treatment, prognosis and prevention. (jcm.co.uk)
- The reason is that a reader sent me a link to an article in Stars and Stripes that really irritated me, Acupuncture becomes popular as battlefield pain treatment . (scienceblogs.com)
- Treatment of myopia with ear-point pressing and acupuncture: a report of 216 cases. (healthy.net)
- Electrical stimulation of selected acupuncture points can be used to induce surgical analgesia in small animals. (vin.com)
- The acupuncture points that are used for acupuncture anesthesia can safely and effectively reduce or entirely eliminate the pain of an operation or surgery. (acufinder.com)
- Different points are used for acupuncture anesthesia depending on the area of the surgery. (acufinder.com)
- While the majority avoided acupuncture points traditionally cautioned against in pregnancy, 13% would use LI 4, 22% would use SP 6, and 31% would use BL 32. (rhizome.net.nz)
- Amazingly, we found references to a few acupuncture points in turtles, so myself and a second acupuncture trained veterinarian began with these. (jwz.org)
- Acupuncture is performed by electric-stimulation of 8 points at the lower legs, the neck and ears with 90 V and 5--6 Htz. (meta.org)
- This paper reveals incongruities that remain between human and veterinary acupuncture points, illustrating the need to analyze anatomical characteristics of each point to assure accuracy in selecting transpositional acupuncture locations. (mdpi.com)
- Pragmatic combinations of acupuncture points for lateral epicondylalgia are unreliable in the physiotherapy setting. (bioportfolio.com)
- This study describes the reliability of pragmatic combinations of acupuncture points for lateral epicondylalgia as prescribed by physiotherapists who were experts in acupuncture. (bioportfolio.com)
- Here, we show that acupuncture at Shenmen (HT7) points attenuates behavioral manifestation of alcohol dependence by activating endorphinergic input to the NAc from the ARC. (sciencemag.org)
- 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)
- According to TCM, acupuncture points are thought to be located at specific areas along channels or meridians. (mskcc.org)
- Auriculotherapy, a form of acupuncture that involves stimulating targeted points on the outer ear, may help in managing constipation. (medworm.com)
- Stimulation of certain acupuncture points has been shown to affect areas of the brain that are known to reduce sensitivity to pain and stress (Wu 1999). (acupuncture.org.uk)
- Stimulation of certain acupuncture points has been shown to affect areas of the brain that are known to reduce sensitivity to pain and stress (Hui 2010) It has also be shown to reduce inflammation, by promoting release of vascular and immunomodulatory factors. (acupuncture.org.uk)
- 2 In this text, the concept of meridians or channels is well established, although there continues to be some incongruity in the exact anatomical locations of the acupuncture points. (dovepress.com)
- Randomized Controlled Trial of Acupuncture for Women with Fibromyalgia: Group Acupuncture with Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis-Based Point Selection. (bioportfolio.com)
- Neural mechanism underlying acupuncture analgesia. (nih.gov)
- The mechanism of the analgesia produced by TENS is explained by the gate-control theory proposed by Melzack and Wall in 1965. (medscape.com)
- Research on the mechanism of acupuncture began as early as 1976 with the introduction of the endorphin hypothesis and the gate control theory of pain, which accounts for the inhibition of nociceptive information via interneurons. (wikipedia.org)
- I have never bothered to go back and see what the original literature was to support endorphins as a potential mechanism for a beneficial effect of acupuncture on pain. (sciencebasedmedicine.org)
- And endorphins are unlikely to be the mechanism for all the other diseases for which the WHO suggests acupuncture benefits . (sciencebasedmedicine.org)
- Studies, so far, show acupuncture may indeed trigger the release of endorphins, which help with pain and provide a calming effect. (gainesville.com)
- providing pain relief - by stimulating nerves located in muscles and other tissues, acupuncture leads to release of endorphins and other neurohumoral factors, and changes the processing of pain in the brain and spinal cord (Zhao 2008, Han 2004, Zijlstra 2003, Pomeranz 1987). (acupuncture.org.uk)
- Inhibition of the excitatory glutamatergic system and stimulation of the inhibitory system will contribute to analgesia. (hindawi.com)
- Data of analgesia and oxytocin augmentation during labour, duration of labour, frequency of preterm birth, operative delivery, Apgar score, cord-blood gas/acid base balance and birth weight were also recorded. (biomedcentral.com)
- There are many different techniques, both regional and non-regional, to provide labour analgesia. (anaesthesiauk.com)
- Non-regional techniques are the most frequently employed methods for labour analgesia. (anaesthesiauk.com)
- Non-regional methods available for analgesia in labour may be divided into non-pharmacological and pharmacological methods. (anaesthesiauk.com)
- Electrodes are placed about 2 cm over the T10-L1 dermatomes either side of the spinous processes to provide analgesia for the first stage of labour. (anaesthesiauk.com)
- Current clinical data suggest that it relieves labour pain to a significant degree in most women but does not provide complete analgesia for many. (anaesthesiauk.com)
- Several volatile anaesthetic agents have been inhaled intermittently for labour analgesia. (anaesthesiauk.com)
- In childbirth, acupuncture analgesia may ease labour pain and also reduce the duration of labour. (news-medical.net)
- Effect of acupuncture and intervention types on weight loss: a systematic review and meta-analysis. (bioportfolio.com)
- We observed individual differences in analgesia produced by EA, and the intensity of pain reduction positively correlated with the expression of peripheral/central inflammatory mediators. (grantome.com)
- Additional observations have implicated tissue release of nucleotides and adenosine in acupuncture analgesia, and shown analgesia results from peripheral actions at adenosine A 1 Rs. (springer.com)
- Acupuncture might be a complementary therapy for neuropsychiatry disorders. (frontiersin.org)
- Acupuncture, a complementary therapy used in symptom management,[ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ] is used clinically to manage cancer-related symptoms, treat side effects induced by chemotherapy or radiation therapy, boost blood cell count, and enhance lymphocyte and natural killer (NK) cell activity. (healthlinkbc.ca)
- When I first became interested in "alternative medicine"--excuse me, I mean "complementary and alternative medicine" (CAM)--I viewed acupuncture somewhat differently. (scienceblogs.com)
- Out of curiosity, before I proceeded to discuss this article and what's going on with battlefield acupuncture in 2017, I decided to try to find my first ever post on battlefield acupuncture. (scienceblogs.com)
- For almost 1000 years it was in decline and in 1822 Emperor Dao Guang issued an imperial edict stating that acupuncture and moxibustion should be banned forever from the Imperial Medical Academy. (dcscience.net)
- Acupuncture is a nonpharmacologic pain management modality that has been shown to provide superior analgesia for acute pain. (clinicaltrials.gov)
- Multimodal analgesia is simultaneous administration of 2 or more analgesic drugs (pain medications) affecting different parts of the pain pathway, simultaneously. (vcahospitals.com)
- Different ways to administer these drugs also can be included in multimodal analgesia (pain relief). (vcahospitals.com)
- This study aimed to evaluate the effect of acupuncture and intervention types on weight loss. (bioportfolio.com)
- The weight of acupuncture evidence is consistent with an inactive intervention. (bodyinmind.org)
- By as early as 1980 as much as 25 percent of all surgery in the major hospitals of China employed acupuncture analgesia as either an adjunct or as the sole analgesia. (dynamicchiropractic.com)
- Research indicates, however, that high-frequency TENS analgesia is not reversed by naloxone, implicating a naloxone-resistant, dynorphin-binding receptor. (medscape.com)
- Potential benefits of using nonpharmacological therapy (e.g. acupuncture, hypnosis, Tai chi, Yoga) have been reported, but not been systematically applied due to lack of compelling evidence. (grantome.com)
- In 2001, a review found insufficient evidence to support equine acupuncture. (wikipedia.org)
- Traditional Chinese acupuncture reinterpreted Section II: The evidence 9. (jcm.co.uk)
- Evidence on the safety of acupuncture Section III: Practical aspects 11. (jcm.co.uk)
- Literature supporting the efficacious use of acupuncture to treat a variety of conditions has been and continues to be published, including the randomized controlled studies we all appreciate when practicing evidence-based medicine. (dovepress.com)
- Conclusions Current preliminary evidence suggests that acupuncture given with embryo transfer improves rates of pregnancy and live birth among women undergoing in vitro fertilisation. (bmj.com)
- What I wanted to know was the evidence behind the universal meme that acupuncture releases feel-good hormones. (sciencebasedmedicine.org)
- We've covered acupuncture a lot on BiM and regular readers will be in little doubt about my interpretation of the evidence. (bodyinmind.org)
- Recent (i.e. post-2011) reviews in both veterinary text books and scientific journals indicate that acupuncture can be used for therapeutic or homeostatic effects in animals, especially in the three areas of pain management, geriatric medicine and sports medicine. (wikipedia.org)
- Acupuncture signals ascend mainly through the spinal ventrolateral funiculus to the brain. (nih.gov)
- EA analgesia is likely associated with its counter-regulation to spinal glial activation. (nih.gov)
- This activates small Myelinated Nerve Fibers in the Muscle which transmit impulses to the spinal cord and then activate three centers - the spinal cord, Midbrain and pituitary/ Hypothalamus - to produce Analgesia . (online-medical-dictionary.org)
- This electronic pulse analgesia pen is a handy and fast-working device, which is based on transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation. (everbuying.net)
- in traditional chinese medicine, acupuncture has been used for thousands of years to treat a variety of disorders, including cardiovascular disorders. (physiology.org)
- Acupuncture has been used successfully in respiratory disorders such as allergic rhinitis. (news-medical.net)
- Multiple modalities exist for nonpharmacologic analgesia for labor and delivery. (oncologynurseadvisor.com)
- Nonpharmacologic analgesia is not relevant to operative delivery such as cesarean or forceps-assisted delivery, as anesthesia is then required. (oncologynurseadvisor.com)
- The availability of safe and effective nonpharmacologic analgesia that can be used repeatedly for acute pain in newborns or children would cause a paradigm shift in the management of pediatric pain. (cmaj.ca)
- In recent years, research has been prompted by the introduction of neuroimaging techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and positron emission tomography (PET), both of which have further elucidated the relation between acupuncture stimulation and activation of neural structures. (wikipedia.org)
- The effect was increased 26% in the DPA-acupuncture group, which shows no statistically significant difference (P less than 0.1). (nih.gov)
- The effect in the DPA-acupuncture anesthesia group was significantly increased by 35% (P less than 0.01). (nih.gov)
- The authors postulate that sucrose is a weak analgesic, but they are unsure whether the lack of analgesia is a ceiling effect (peak of pain during the procedure), a floor effect (minimal pain from a retractable automatic lancet), an age-related effect (circulating levels of β-endorphin after birth) or a disease-related effect (pain processing in newborns of diabetic mothers 20 ). (cmaj.ca)
- acupuncture (EA) induced sedation effect in general anaesthesia through investigating the role of the Benzodiazepines-GABA system. (bioportfolio.com)
- Analgesia is a well-documented effect of acupuncture. (hindawi.com)
- Is acupuncture analgesia an expectancy effect? (wikipedia.org)
- Entonox (50% nitrous oxide in oxygen) provides analgesia within 20-30 seconds of inhalation, with a maximum effect after about 45 seconds. (anaesthesiauk.com)
- There are some studies that may indicate an anti-ischemic effect of acupuncture on myocardial ischemia with only partial effect in humans. (ahajournals.org)
- In addition, deactivation of the limbic system by acupuncture stimulation has been reported in human studies, possibly accounting for its sedative effect in horses. (wikipedia.org)
- Acupuncture had no effect on resting MSNA, blood pressure, or heart rate. (physiology.org)
- No-needle acupuncture had no effect on these variables. (physiology.org)
- Needling nonacupoints, but not "no-needle" acupuncture, have a similar effect on blood pressure. (physiology.org)
- However, few studies have examined the effect of ear acupuncture alone in treating anxiety. (acupuncturetoday.com)
- The effect of acupuncture on the immune system has been tested in hepatitis B virus carriers. (news-medical.net)
- And naloxone (an opiate antagonist) blockade of acupuncture effect? (sciencebasedmedicine.org)
- The brain and serum extracts of acupunctured rabbits injected into rabbits produced a marked analgesic effect on the recipient, as shown by a great increase of their pain threshold. (sciencebasedmedicine.org)
- Clinical observation of the weight-reducing effect of ear acupuncture in 350 cases of obesity. (healthy.net)
- Its use is now widespread in almost every medical speciality, especially dermatology, ophthalmology and medical acupuncture. (chiro.org)
- The aim of this position paper is to present the current views, on the use of laser, of the Australian Medical Acupuncture College. (chiro.org)
- An overview of Western medical acupuncture 3. (jcm.co.uk)
- Forging a synthesis between human and veterinary acupuncture requires consistency in point location across species so that meaningful comparisons can be made. (mdpi.com)
- map universally accepted veterinary acupuncture point charts with a common nomenclature [ 1 ]. (mdpi.com)
- But her introduction to veterinary acupuncture came as an undergraduate veterinary student at Ohio State University. (gainesville.com)
- In the process of treating thousands of small animals and several hundred horses, Bruno and Ottaviano trained veterinarians who later founded the International Veterinary Acupuncture Society (IVAS). (wikipedia.org)
- The demand for veterinary acupuncture has steadily increased since the 1990s. (wikipedia.org)
- Veterinary acupuncture has also recently been used on more exotic animals, such as chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and an alligator with scoliosis, though this is still quite rare. (wikipedia.org)
- citation needed] Conditions that have the best responses to veterinary acupuncture are considered to be pain, immune-related dysfunction and visceral dysfunction. (wikipedia.org)
- Solid surgical analgesia and normal physiological performance immediately after termination of the surgery were the main advantages in responders to AA. (vin.com)
- According to "Acupuncture: A Comprehensive Text" by the Shanghai College of Traditional Medicine, "Not only is pain suppressed, but other physiological functions are maintained at normal levels, and the body's power to resist disease is itself strengthened as a result of needle stimulation. (acufinder.com)
- We searched CENTRAL ( The Cochrane Library , Issue 1, 2003), MEDLINE (January 1966 to January 2003), EMBASE (January 1988 to January 2003) and the National Library of Medicine publication list of acupuncture studies up to and including January 2003. (lww.com)
- Acupuncture research in regards to PONV has been fairly well established, however, studies about perioperative pain control and acupuncture are a little more murky. (clinicaltrials.gov)
- Reconciling inconsistencies will bolster the ability for researchers and clinicians to better understand and interpret findings from acupuncture studies on various species so that more can benefit from these insights. (mdpi.com)
- Studies of acupuncture have been positive. (wikipedia.org)
- Despite some attempts to perform "blind" studies with acupuncture, we are not aware of any satisfactory way to achieve this. (ahajournals.org)
- In animal studies, acupuncture has been shown to be sympathoinhibitory, but it is unknown if acupuncture is sympathoinhibitory in humans. (physiology.org)
- MRI studies show that acupuncture causes changes in the brain that reflect changes in the body. (mskcc.org)
- Due to its popularity, scientific investigation of acupuncture has grown dramatically in recent years, with many new studies reported every week. (portsmouthhospital.com)
- Wang and Kain added that since several studies have documented an association between anxiety and pain, and that since ear acupuncture would appear to reduce anxiety for an extended amount of time, the use of acupuncture on a patient just prior to surgery could have a positive impact on that patient's feelings of pain and anxiety immediately after surgery. (acupuncturetoday.com)
- There have been clinical studies evaluating if acupuncture actually works. (news-medical.net)
- combining acupuncture with Chinese herbal medicine for endometriosis has been shown in animal studies to down-regulate the abnormal increase of matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2) levels that is associated with ectopic activity of endometrial cells. (acupuncture.org.uk)
- These were studies comparing acupuncture with medication, and, as such, they were almost certainly not blinded. (scienceblogs.com)
- The aim of the study is to investigate if P6 acupuncture made after induction of general anaesthesia might be effective for the prevention of PONV as ondansetron and if the acupuncture-ond. (bioportfolio.com)
- As caffeine is widely consumed, it will be important to attend to caffeine intake in future trial design with respect to evaluating novel therapies that use these receptor systems, some existing analgesics, as well as acupuncture analgesia. (springer.com)
- In this article we're going to take a closer look at one of the latest theories on how acupuncture relieves pain. (chriskresser.com)