Medical Device Makers Spend Millions to loosen Regulations
This is an older article and back up for some of the writing I’m doing. It’s a good summary of the pressures to take these devices to market.
This is an older article and back up for some of the writing I’m doing. It’s a good summary of the pressures to take these devices to market.
This study investigated the mechanism underlying the immediate effect of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) on major depressive disorder (MDD). The study involved 58 MDD patients and 54 healthy controls who underwent taVNS treatment. They were looking at which
I admire Dr. Redberg very much. She speaks truth to the “powers that be” pushing medications and imaging technologies and scantily researched medical interventions. (If you click on the photo it will take you to a great discussion on a
In this article, the researchers measure Heart Rate Variability as a function of pain levels in 647 subjects. They found that parasympathetic activity was lower in patients with chronic pain. This is not at all surprising, but we can wonder
As patients and readers of my blog know, I focus on the autonomic nervous system in my acupuncture practice. Autonomic balance has now been implicated in many different diseases, an important one is Rheumatoid Arthritis. Acupuncture improves autonomic balance and
I have treated many patients in the clinic who suffer from constipation and it really helps. This study investigated the effects of electroacupuncture (EA) at ST 25 on constipation in Parkinson’s disease (PD) rats. The researchers found that EA intervention relieved
A recent study found, in the prestigious journal Nature, that acupuncture may be effective in reducing the frequency of chronic tension-type headaches. The study included 218 participants who received either true acupuncture or a sham treatment for eight weeks. The
This study sought to determine whether HRV measures, a measure of autonomic balance. corresponded to “internalizing symptoms” found in adolescents. Their conclusion was “Results suggest that reduced HRV should be considered as a potential contributor to exacerbating internalizing symptoms in
This is a study that I referenced here but neglected to put in the original study. This study compared the effectiveness of electroacupuncture to the antidepressant medication Prozac in patients with depression. Both treatments were found to be clinically beneficial for
I’m seeing more Long Covid in the clinic. As readers know, my interest for a long time is autonomic balance and its effects on health. It appears that Long Covid has dysautonomia, or an imbalance of the autonomic system, as
