A patient of mine sent me an acupuncture email from a local practitioner touting the benefits of acupuncture for weight loss. The email was a mass produced type email that acupuncturists send out instead of writing their own. It
GMS Health Technol Assess. 2012;8: Alternative methods for the treatment of post-menopausal troubles. Aidelsburger P, Schauer S, Grabein K, Wasem J Menopause is described as the transition from the reproductive phase of a women to the non reproductive. Changes
Here is the abstract from my paper. I hope it gets accepted. If not, I’ll post it here. Heart Rate Variability in the Acupuncture Clinic: Clinical Correlations and Lessons Learned Background: Heart Rate Variability (HRV) has gained traction as a
A study from the Litscher group looking at violet laser acupuncture at GV20,ear acupuncture at the “heart” point and Susanli, stomach 36. The only effect they noticed was some increase in HRV after stim at GV20, but notably no change
This is consistent with a previous study that showed brain activity in the musculoskeletal region after needling at Gall Bladder 34. Neurophysiol Clin. 2012 Jun;42(4):225-30. Epub 2012 Mar 6. Effects of acupuncture needle penetration on motor system excitability. Zunhammer M,
It is with trepidation that I link to this product. Colleagues who had more of a stomach for it linked through to see what it offered. I’m sure it can’t be too awesome since artifact and analysis are pretty tricky
I’ve been busy over the holiday weekend writing up data for publication and have referred to this paper often and realized that I hadn’t “added it to the archives”. This is a paper out of Norway and the authors offer
Friend of blog, Vitaly Napadow, has an interesting study looking at ear stimulation for pelvic pain. His group used transcutaneous-vagus nerve stimulation (t-VNS) synchronized with the exhalation phase of respiration to study the response to chronic pelvic pain. They compared
I know, I know. Everyone’s eyes are glazing over. But for the record, this is another well done animal study by the Longhurst group on anesthetized cats using electroacupuncture on PC 5 and PC 6 which is shown to blunt
Needle acupuncture for osteoarthritis of the knee. A systematic review and updated meta-analysis. Cao L, Zhang XL, Gao YS, Jiang Y. Saudi Med J. 2012 May;33(5):526-32 To evaluate the efficacy of treatment with acupuncture for knee osteoarthritis. METHODS: We searched
