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.
It turns out that there are a number of free assessment tools for patients’ symptoms now. This ihttps://www.assessmentcenter.net/documents/Scoring%20PROMIS%20Global%20short%20form.pdfs the link for one of them. It is short indeed, which I really like. Not sure if it’s germane to my patients
At the SAR conference in Boston, I was reading up on some of the participants. I noticed Sandra Silverio-Lopes has a few posters that she is presenting. She is from Brazil, studied in China. I found this chapter that she
I’ve been interested in bee venom for a few years since it combines a few things that might be significant in stimulation the healing response in the context of needling/acupuncture. One is that it distends the tissues, but two
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
Nice study showing that acupuncture reduces the stress levels in response to startle response in horses. Apparently, their behavior didn’t change, but it would still be advantageous not to have the deleterious spike in their “fright and flight” physiological
Given that poor sleep can accelerate dementia, this is an important and newsworthy study. Neurosci Lett. 2015 Feb 5;587:35-40. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2014.12.016. Epub 2014 Dec 12. Acupuncture for sleep quality, BDNF levels and immunosenescence: a randomized controlled study. Zuppa C1, Prado
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 study looks at electro acupuncture in the concha of the ear(link was to previous post that gives innervation of ear:concha only 45% vagal). In this study, they stimulated the left ear with electro acupuncture at 10 hz and
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
