Assessment Center Link
This is a website with a compendium of patient assessment forms, manuals and resources. Most are paid, but there are some free ones too.
This is a website with a compendium of patient assessment forms, manuals and resources. Most are paid, but there are some free ones too.
My last post about horses has really gotten me to think about how acupuncture might work. I’ve been interested in the autonomic response (stress response) and acupuncture for so long I never really thought about it in this particular
Though we don’t know the end of this tale yet, it illustrates what the stress monitoring data may be telling us. The questions I’m actively investigating are How does the patient’s nervous system respond to the subtle stressor of
This is the case study of a patient with cluster headaches. When he came in to see me, he was still suffering from daily chronic headaches, but not the severe cluster type. He had excellent results with Acupuncture and
Kinda great that this made it into the British Medical Journal. This article shows the merit of understanding the physiology behind clinical conditions. BMJ Case Rep. 2015 Sep 10;2015. Acupuncture for episodic cluster headache: a trigeminal approach. Hayhoe S1
Relieving high blood pressure without drugs can be key in many populations, i.e. elderly people who can’t tolerate medications, men whose sex lives suffer with medications, women who would like to conceive etc… Case Study: A vital man in his 70’s
Stress monitoring can be useful in the acupuncture clinic since decreasing a patient’s stress levels can lead to better mood, immunity, pain levels, sleep and longer life. The patient’s reaction to acupuncture can be instructive also, as illustrated in the
This article looks at autonomic balance before and after a series of 12 acupuncture sessions. (Update: full article text here.)What they say is that the patients with Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis have a higher resting heart rate to start, and blunted
This is another clinical case, looking at the same research questions as this one. This is the case of a young woman age 25, who had a concussion after being thrown from a horse. She had severe headaches and
This turned out to be a pretty good illustration of some of the issues I’m exploring with stress monitoring (HRV) as a function of acupuncture treatment. This is a patient late 30’s who has had some upheaval in her
