As blog readers may know, I’ve been experimenting with TAVNS in patients, not only to see how they feel with/after treatment, but also to study their HRV (stress levels) with it. As with most of my clinical work, the results
This data is from a relatively new patient with migraines. She has had few migraines since starting acupuncture treatment, but it’s early yet, so hard to know for sure. This data
This study shows an improvement in brain activity with 3 times a week, low frequency electroacupuncture at Ki6 and Bl 62. (Acupuncturists will recognize both of those points as opening points for “Special” meridians.) The P300 is an actual measure
This study combines two key areas I’m interested in. One is using auricular vagal stimulation, and the other is migraine. Napadow has been a colleague of mine for over 10 years and he does brilliant work. He’s an expert in
More data from recent patients. This is some nice preliminary data from a patient being treated for hypertension. I’m including the same data as in the previous blog post, ie complexity and parasympathetic activity and sympathetic activity. His blood pressure
I haven’t been sharing much data lately, just due to other projects and travel. Here is some data from a patient who values electrical ear stimlulation that provides increased vagal activity, ie increased “rest and digest” and has a unit
What I love best about this paper is the title i.e “prevention of lifestyle disease.” Yes! That is a key aspect of acupuncture treatment, true prevention. This study is planned, not yet completed. They will be comparing Heart Rate Variability
(I link to this with caveats. As I’ve said many times over the years, if acupuncture was the answer for weight loss, I’d be a billionaire. But, nonetheless, to be thorough, I’m linking to this study since it’s in the
I was not aware that migraine sufferers had cutaneous allodynia. That may account for the exaggerated autonomic response to needling I’ve noticed in the clinic. Neural Regen Res. 2017 May;12(5):804-811. doi: 10.4103/1673-5374.206652. Electroacupuncture at Fengchi (GB20) inhibits calcitonin gene-related peptide
I’m in Mexico City (!) for the ICMART conference and heard Torres-Rosas give a talk on how acupuncture at St36 can ameliorate markers of sepsis and decrease mortality in mice. Though I posted his paper before (see link), it was
