Sentences with phrase «study of acupuncture»

This article discusses the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review's study of acupuncture, cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness - based stress reduction, yoga, and tai chi to treat chronic low back pain.

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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.

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 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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

Of three studies, both Kong et al. [39] and Hu et al. [81] found finger - tapping task can produce more reliable fMRI signal changes than that evoked by electro - acupuncture stimulation.

One of the first such studies (Dhond et al. study [57]-RRB- found that verum acupuncture, but not monofilament tapping increased resting state connectivity of the default mode network (DMN) to pain, affective and memory related regions of the brain.

From the studies which had both verum and sham acupuncture groups: 3a) greater activation of verum acupuncture points than baseline (verum > rest), 3b) greater deactivation of verum acupuncture points than baseline (rest > verum), 3c) greater activation of sham acupuncture points than baseline (sham > rest), 3d) greater deactivation of sham acupuncture points than baseline (rest > sham), 3e) comparison ALE map of greater activation of verum than sham acupuncture relative to rest («verum > rest» - «sham > rest»), 3f) comparison ALE map of greater deactivation of verum than sham acupuncture relative to rest («rest > verum» - «rest > sham»).

We included all studies using fMRI to investigate the effect of acupuncture on the human brain (at least one group that received needle - based acupuncture).

Overall, the results of three studies showed that electro - acupuncture tends to produce more activation and less deactivation compared to manual acupuncture.

Of six studies, two studies [47], [48] showed no differences between verum and sham acupuncture.

Each study had to have at least one group, which received an intervention with any type of needle - based acupuncture.

In this review we included all studies using fMRI to investigate the effect of acupuncture on the human brain.

In a 2012 report published in Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers reviewed the results of 29 studies involving nearly 18,000 participants, and found that acupuncture successfully helped alleviate symptoms of four chronic pain conditions: back and neck pain, osteoarthritis, chronic headaches, and shoulder pain.

In one study of back - pain sufferers, folks who underwent acupuncture reported more relief than those who relied on meds or physical therapy.

There is an abundance of medical literature supporting the use of acupuncture for pain, and this includes studies about preventing migraine headaches.

A meta - analysis of five acupuncture studies conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service, however, concluded that the evidence suggested that acupuncture was no more effective for smoking cessation than placebo.

According to a study, acupuncture is effective in reducing symptoms of depression during pregnancy.

A small study examining the effect of acupuncture alone and in combination with education found that acupuncture significantly reduced smoking.

Neuro - imaging studies show acupuncture to calm areas of the brain that register pain.

Only a handful of small studies have shown that acupuncture can help with RA symptoms.

Acupuncture has been pretty well - studied and research suggests that it can be helpful for different types of pain including low - back pain, knee pain, osteoarthritic pain, neck pain, and tension and migraine headaches.

Acupuncture, which has been made use of for treatment of myopia and dry eye, was compared to patching in a study which involved 88 children.

Studying various systems of medicine including Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture and Ayurveda, she found a wealth of information not yet taught in conventional medical schools.

A recent study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine showed that allergy sufferers did better with acupuncture compared to their non-acupuncture counterparts.

According to a study, acupuncture has the potential for becoming an alternative choice to patching for the treatment of lazy eye (amblyopia) in certain older children.

Post college, Kailie went on to study and receive her diploma in Acupuncture and TCM in the spring of 2008 from the College of Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine.

A recent National Institutes of Health randomized, controlled study of 570 people with osteoarthritis of the knee, showed that real acupuncture, as opposed to sham acupuncture and pain drugs used as a control, provided pain relief and improved function by 40 %.

During four years of rigorous study, Jen's adventurous nature led her to all three campuses of her acupuncture school — in Chicago, California, and lastly, in New York, where she resides today.

Medical research conducted over the past few years has shown effectiveness of acupuncture as noted in clinical research studies.