Do No Harm!!! New study from the Lancet shows that opiates are no better than placebo for low back and neck pain. My patients know that I’ve never understood the reliance on opioids for these problems since the risk is
I’m unclear on the actual protocol in this study. I don’t know what alternate therapy means. They developed an animal model for chronic stress (always awful to contemplate) and then evaluated their cardiac markers and behavior. After two weeks of
Please click here or on my photo for a brief video on how Acupuncture can improve your health, life span and mood! Welcome to my website and blog where ancient medicine is made modern. In this brief blog post I
Keep in mind, any therapy that can allow an increase in the amount of chemotherapy given can be crucial in providing for increased dosages of chemotherapy, allowing, potentially for a better result in treatment. For Practitioners, the points used were
This has been my area of interest and research for years. I don’t have access to the full article, but this jumped out at me, “In maintaining the coordination and unity of human physiological activities, it is in line with
In my book, Radical Resilience, I make the case that one of the many ways acupuncture “works” is that it nudges the system to fix itself, to regain balance and homeostasis. This article, reviewed by the folks at the British
This study out of Belgium compares verum versus sham TAVNS in patients with perseverative cognition. In these patients they can have psychophysiological stress with no provoking stressor. It is thought that cognitive inflexibility is related to autonomic inflexibility as measured
This study looked at a group of patients with heart failure. They were divided into two groups: sham TAVNS and 5hz/15hz. TAVNS. They all received 30 minute treatment, 5 days per week for a total of 20 sessions. Analysis was
I like this study because it lays out a simple acupuncture point protocol for treating insomnia. It is recommended for subjects who exhibit a particular pattern, ie liver stagnation. It doesn’t use the often used point behind the ear A
This is a very important study in that it corroborates the groundbreaking study from Nature that established that the intensity/frequency of stimulation can be important in achieving parasympathetic increase. I measure parasympathetic activity, or vagal activity in the clinic. In
