Sentences with phrase «studied acupuncture»

Dr. Scott also studied acupuncture and became a Fellow in the International Academy of Medical Acupuncture.

After graduating she studied acupuncture at the world - famous Chi Institute in Reddick, FL..

They may have studied acupuncture and nutrition, may know a great deal about herbs, remedies, diet.

She has since studied acupuncture, herbal medicine and several other areas of holistic veterinary care.

In 1972, he studied acupuncture and in 1982 he began what amounts to thousands of hours of homeopathic training.

She also studied acupuncture at the Chi Institute.

While at PCOM he studied Acupuncture, Chinese herbs, Western Diseases, Qigong, Tai chi, massage and nutritional therapy.

After a successful career in business, Manju's interest in health and healing led her to study acupuncture and Chinese medicine.

He has traveled the world studying acupuncture, homeopathy, functional medicine, chiropractic and functional neurology in an effort to understand how the human body heals.

This is helpful for peripheral neuropathy (numbness in hands & feet post chemo), relaxation, plus Dr Sing has been recently studying acupuncture with regard to its benefits for cancer patients.

Originally trained in surgery - Dr. Shiroko found that she wasn't getting the results she wanted to help people achieve as a surgeon so she decided to study acupuncture.

Prior to studying acupuncture, he spent over 40 years in business, specializing in support services for individuals with developmental disabilities, business development, human resources and management.

At that time (1984) I had begun to study acupuncture and was being introduced to a broad range of complementary healing modalities including whole food nutrition.

He is also in the process of studying Acupuncture, and will be certified in June 2017.

She is also in the process of studying Acupuncture, and will be certified in December 2012.

Not exact matches

This was collaborated by a 1998 article in the Journal of the American Medical Association where studies proved that acupuncture was effective at turning breech babies in 75 percent of the test subjects when combined with moxibustion.

Studies reported by The American Pregnancy Association suggest that the most effective fertility treatments involve a combination of acupuncture, herbal medicine, and traditional medical interventions.

Needle in a haystack Acupuncture has been proven to be successful at inducing labour, although only a limited number of studies have been carried out.

A limitation of this study is that the method of acupuncture did not fully mimic traditional Chinese medicine which could include herbal mixtures, so that additional factors beyond acupuncture weren't added to the study data.

Because women are increasingly seeking out acupuncture in order to induce ovulation, researchers decided to study whether or not the traditional Chinese medicine therapy could serve as a supplemental treatment along with clomiphene to improve pregnancy outcomes.

But this study showed that acupuncture added nothing beyond medication,» said Legro, who noted that this large trial is one of the highest quality acupuncture trials to address fertility outcomes.

The first study mimicked the benefit experienced by individuals who have acupuncture regularly, while the new study looked at the benefit of acupuncture during a stressful event — «which is how acupuncture is most often utilized clinically,» Eshkevari says.

«We have now found a potential mechanism, and at this point in our research, we need to test human participants in a blinded, placebo controlled clinical study — the same technique we used to study the behavioral effects of acupuncture in rats,» says Eshkevari, a nurse anesthetist and licensed acupuncturist.

In fact, both of the studies found that when adenosine was turned on in mouse tissue by other mechanisms, the pain response was equal to or better than the response generated by acupuncture.

For one thing, they point out, acupuncture studies are extremely difficult to double - blind — a methodological approach in which neither the researchers nor patients know who is receiving the treatment under investigation and who is receiving the placebo or sham.

For another thing, the study results offered no support for the use of acupuncture to treat any of the other conditions for which the procedure is often advertised.

«We have no evidence that [acupuncture] is anything more than theatrical placebo,» says Harriet Hall, a retired family physician and U.S. Air Force flight surgeon who has studied, and long been a critic of, alternative medicine.

The new study also used a drug to block acupuncture's manipulation of the HPA system, and found that production of stress hormones equalized in all treatment groups.

Some of the best support for this contention came in 2012, when researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and their colleagues published a meta - analysis of 29 studies involving nearly 18,000 patients, which found that traditional acupuncture produced a somewhat greater reduction in pain than placebo or sham acupuncture.

Studies have found no meaningful difference between acupuncture and a wide range of sham treatments.

Scientists have long understood that qi is not a legitimate biological entity; many studies have shown that the effects of acupuncture are the same whether needles are placed along the meridians or at random locations around the body.

In 1998, the group funded 43 studies, including investigations into the effect of acupuncture on alcoholism, the value of melatonin in Parkinson's - induced sleep disorders, and the efficacy of «calming music and hand massage on the agitated elderly.»

Instead most treatments studied — whether pills, push - ups or acupuncture — help some people cope with their pain but fail to help others.

The exhibition takes the form of six case studies: the preservation of Greek medical literature in the Islamic Empire; the development of European interest in Islamic medicine; Western adoption of indigenous Indian medical knowledge and the history of colonial medicine in India; the case of smallpox; Western exposure to the Far Eastern techniques of acupuncture, moxa and feeling the pulse; and the adoption of Western medicine in the Far East.

People with lower educational levels and incomes are less likely to know about yoga, acupuncture, natural products and chiropractic medicine, according to a new study from San Francisco State University.

Previous studies have shown acupuncture is effective for chronic pain, including low back pain, neck pain, and osteoarthritis; tension - type headache; chemotherapy - induced nausea and vomiting; period pain; and hayfever.

«If women want to consider having acupuncture for hot flushes, they should know that although previous studies show it is better than doing nothing, our study demonstrates that needling does not appear to make a difference.»

A new study has revealed traditional Chinese acupuncture treatments are no better than fake acupuncture for treating menopause symptoms., But in a surprise finding, both the real and sham treatments showed a 40 per cent improvement in the severity and frequency of hot flushes at the end of eight weeks of treatment.

«Real acupuncture no better than sham acupuncture for treating hot flushes: Study.»

Studies also have found that traditional acupuncture works differently than sham acupuncture in the brain.

To quantify the difference, a 2013 meta - analysis looked at placebo effects in 79 studies of migraine prevention: sugar pills reduced headache frequency for 22 percent of patients, fake acupuncture helped 38 percent, and sham surgery was a hit for a remarkable 58 percent.

A limitation of this study is that the method of acupuncture didn't fully mimic traditional Chinese medicine which could include herbal mixtures so that additional factors beyond acupuncture weren't added to the study data.

A CUMC - led study finds that acupuncture can reduce the joint pain caused by aromatase inhibitors, a drug taken by two - thirds of all breast cancer patients.

Acupuncture, alone or with the medication clomiphene, does not appear to be effective in treating infertility in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), according to a new international study including Penn State College of Medicine.

In the previous decade, an increasing number of studies have applied fMRI to investigate brain response to acupuncture stimulation.

One study from Zeng et al. [130] compared acupuncture at KI3 and KI7 at two different time points — «open point time» and «closed point time» (the open or closed time point is determined by the Chinese medicine theory «Zi - Wu - Liu - Zhu» — the body's Qi and blood circulation schedule; acupuncture at the open point time results in maximum clinical effect and vice versa)[1].

Future studies should further improve methodological aspects and reporting related to both fMRI and acupuncture, and strictly control experimental conditions for more robust inference.

While published results on acupuncture and fMRI were heterogeneous, from a descriptive perspective most studies suggest that acupuncture can modulate the brain activity within specific brain areas, and the evidence based on meta - analyses confirmed part of these results.

For motor areas and higher cognitive areas, five studies [15], [16], [55], [57], [58] showed that acupuncture was associated with more activation.

From the studies which provided direct contrasts between verum and sham acupuncture: 2a) greater activation from verum than sham acupuncture (or greater deactivation for sham, i.e. verum > sham), 2b) greater deactivation from verum than sham acupuncture (or greater activation for sham, i.e. sham > verum).