Tyrone Hayes: Picked up by Charlie Pierce
One of the bloggers I go to at least daily, has a blog post up about Tyrone Hayes also, referring to the New Yorker article.
One of the bloggers I go to at least daily, has a blog post up about Tyrone Hayes also, referring to the New Yorker article.
Of course, I would have loved to see acupuncture come in with a resounding recommendation, but given the panel, I will take what I can get. They didn’t dismiss acupuncture and it came in tied with Synvist injections. In the
This is background for my hypothesis that acupuncture stress reduction is a key component of symptom relief for tinnitus and many other clinical conditions. All theoretical until I nail it down with decent studies. Brain Areas Controlling Heart Rate
This study seems a bit of a muddle, but from what I can gather, HF component of HRV increases with auricular acupressure in patients with primary dysmenorrhea. Full article here Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2013;2013 Auricular acupressure to improve
This post is for background purposes. There has been interesting work done in the Acupuncture Research community looking at which regions of the brain light up during acupuncture. I don’t claim to be an expert in any way on this
Perhaps surgery is not the greatest idea for back pain??? Those of us who provide alternatives would heartily agree, since we end up seeing many of the post operative patients who are still in pain. From npr. Groopman, a
An historical survey of women scientists who bucked tremendous odds to do their science.
So within one year of getting a knee replacement many patients received an arthroscopy. Follow the money. Arthroscopy. 2013 Nov 27. pii: S0749-8063(13)00973-0. doi: 10.1016/j.arthro.2013.09.002. [Epub ahead of print] An Epidemiologic Analysis of Clinical Practice Guidelines for Non-Arthroplasty Treatment of
This abstract and powerpoint by Longhurst looks at the physiology of the anti-hypotensive effects of acupuncture. Abstract here John Longhurst Power point here John Longhurst_ppt
This is, more or less, the final poster. No real breakthroughs, not yet, but part of the effort. Sparrow_SB_0926_R2_0U-proof
