Relieving high blood pressure without drugs can be key in many populations, i.e. elderly people who can’t tolerate medications, men whose sex lives suffer with medications, women who would like to conceive etc… Case Study: A vital man in his 70’s
I came across this article while trying to find a usable template for recording patient visit data. ( I couldn’t find one, to make my own, sigh.) The author is advocating more frequent acupuncture treatment, which I’ve always suspected
Stress monitoring can be useful in the acupuncture clinic since decreasing a patient’s stress levels can lead to better mood, immunity, pain levels, sleep and longer life. The patient’s reaction to acupuncture can be instructive also, as illustrated in the
As some patients know, I’ve been experimenting with a home made ear stim device fashioned from a simple TENS unit, which I have been using in conjunction with traditional acupuncture treatment. The reason for this is that it should
BMC Complement Altern Med. 2015 Jun 9;15:173. doi: 10.1186/s12906-015-0704-6. Efficacy and safety of acupuncture for dizziness and vertigo in emergency department: a pilot cohort study. Chiu CW1, Lee TC2, Hsu PC2, Chen CY2, Chang SC2, Chiang JY3,4, Lo LC5,6. Author
This interesting HRV study used press tacks that the patients/subjects wore home with a holter monitor to evaluate their HRV over time. These were body press tacks, not ear. The points they used over the 72 hour period were LI10,
COMMENTARIES The Stress and Cancer Conundrum: Is There a Lesson for Acupuncture? Paul J. Rosch, MA, MD, FAC MEDICAL ACUPUNCTURE Volume 27, Number 3, 2015 In the latest issue of Medical Acupuncture, there is a commentary on the role of
New review article out of UC Davis. Nice! Link hereAcupuncture for Dermatology. Review Article Acupuncture as a Treatment Modality in Dermatology: A Systematic Review Chelsea Ma, MD, and Raja K. Sivamani, MD, MS, CAT Abstract Objectives: Acupuncture is a
This is background for an article from Acupuncture Today rebutting a negative acupuncture study from Australia on Knee Acupuncture. The article is not yet available online. PLoS One. 2013; 8(10): e77438. Published online 2013 Oct 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077438 PMCID:
Nice background info on acupuncture’s mechanisms. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2013; PMCID: PMC3586443 The Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Acupuncture and Their Relevance to Allergic Rhinitis: A Narrative Review and Proposed Model John L. McDonald, 1 Allan W. Cripps, 1
