I am re-posting this from a few years ago. I’m reworking my abstract for the NANS (North American Neuromodulation Society) meeting since the deadline has been postponed. This article is a great resource for some of the basic science behind
This article gets to the heart of how I’m thinking about acupuncture. There is a school of thought that nerve stimulation is necessary to achieve clinical results. Longhurst, for example, is an advocate for that approach and all of his
This is my abstract for the upcoming NANS conference in NYC. It was accepted! So to NYC for me in August. Introduction: Improving autonomic balance (increasing parasympathetic activity and decreasing sympathetic activity)leads to better immunity, pain tolerance, mood, longevity and
This article is a great example of the preventative effects of acupuncture. They invoke Chronic Unpredictable Mild Stress (CUMS), and then give acupuncture 36Stomach and Liver 3. “improving sucrose consumption, latency, and food intake in CUMS rats. However, acupuncture appears
I get asked about acupuncture and obesity so often. My standard reply is that if I could treat obesity I’d be a billionaire many times over. Maybe I should make more of an effort!! Unfortunately, there are no details given
A sizable portion of my practice is devoted to migraine patients, finding best treatments and researching their physiological response. This paper looks at the role of abnormal brainstem activity in migraine patients without aura and how acupuncture affects it. As
It’s not surprising that there are gender differences in response to ear laser acupuncture, but I AM surprised that there is an increase in LF/HF or increase in stress levels with laser ear acupuncture. Full text here Medicines (Basel). 2018
“The American College of Physicians has gone so far as to recommend acupuncture as a first treatment for low back pain, and the Joint Commission’s “Pain Management Standards” now includes acupuncture as a non-pharmacological strategy for managing pain.”… “..Or maybe
This case study illustrates some of the patterns I’ve discovered when looking at HRV with Acupuncture and TaVNS. I realize that some of this is nuanced and, perhaps, not that interesting to the general reader, but I do think it’s
This article is similar to the article on horses which also showed a blunting of the autonomic response to startle. There was also this article that looked at startle in young men showing that TAVNS improved their response to startle.
