Abstracts are all published here. Mine is on page P41 on page 22. just fyi… DEVELOPMENT OF A HEART RATE VARIABILITY MONITORING PROTOCOL FOR CLINICAL ACUPUNCTURE USE Kristen Sparrow, Private Practice
This paper outlines 5 contributions to science that came about directly from acupuncture research.Acupuncture Spin Offs 1.18.16 ” Research into acupuncture has had ripple effects beyond the field of acupuncture. This paper identifies five exemplars to illustrate that there is
I was looking through my notes from the SAR conference for something else but found the notes from Stener-Vitorin. She referenced this study from 2013. It may pertain to the glucocorticoid receptor post from a few days ago. Also pertains
This abstract landed in my inbox today, and it’s quite a coincidence since I just attended a research talk yesterday at UCSF Osher Center on stress and glucocorticoid receptors. If I hadn’t gone to that talk, I wouldn’t have
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26113299 Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2015 Sep 1;309(5):G368-76. doi: 10.1152/ajpgi.00467.2014. Epub 2015 Jun 25. Electrical neuromodulation at acupoint ST36 normalizes impaired colonic motility induced by rectal distension in dogs. Jin H1, Liu J2, Foreman RD3, Chen JD4, Yin
In this study the researchers looked at .5, 1,5 and 10 hz. They found that 1 HZ at PC4 was the most effective to decrease pulse and blood pressure. I don’t think I’ve ever used PC4 on purpose, so I
This study explores which acupuncture points might best modulate the hypothalamus/pituitary axis. This information correlates directly with my HRV work since the stress response is associated with the HPAA. So this will be pretty fun to evaluate the HRV
This article looks at electroacupuncture for chronic tension headache and correlates symptom response (VAS) and BDNF (brain derived neurotrophic factor) levels in serum. full article here. The role of BDNF is described in the article as follows. “BDNF has
Pain Physician. 2015 Nov;18(6):527-36. Acupuncture-Analgesia Following a Single Treatment Session in Chronic Whiplash is Unrelated to Autonomic Nervous System Changes: A Randomized Cross-over Trial. De Kooning M1, Tobbackx Y2, Meeus M3, Wauters L4, Ickmans K5, De Vilder P6, Roose J7,
I have been exploring use of the noninvasive vagal nerve stimulation in the clinic in the form of an ear electrode in the cymba concha region. There doesn’t seem to be any good reason to use one side versus
