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Welcome to our Chinese medicine and acupuncture research news pages. We add to the content of these pages continuously as more research news comes in. Browse through the complete archive below or use the category links on the right.

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Items 46 to 54 of 81 total

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Acupuncture at Hegu L.I.-4 more effective for back pain

Categories: Back
A Chinese research group has found that acupuncture at Hegu L.I.-4 is significantly more effective for the treatment of chronic low back pain (CLBP) than standardised acupuncture, especially in the long term
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Yoga and stretching better for low back pain

Categories: Back, Yoga research
Yoga is a more effective treatment for chronic lower back pain than conventional GP care, according to the UK's largest ever study into its benefits.
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Tai chi better than usual care for low back pain

Categories: Back, Tai chi
The first pragmatic randomised controlled trial of tai chi for people with low back pain has shown that it can improve pain and disability outcomes in this population.
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Acupuncture reduces cost of back pain

Categories: Back
Patients with low-back pain (LBP) are less likely to visit physicians for LBP after receiving acupuncture treatment, leading to reduced healthcare spending on LBP. In a case control study carried out in Canada, 201 cases in which LBP was treated with acupuncture were compared with 804 controls.  Each acupuncture group case was matched with four comparison cases from the general population wit ...
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Acupuncture reduces cost of back pain

Categories: Back, Acupuncture research
Patients with low-back pain (LBP) are less likely to visit physicians for LBP after receiving acupuncture treatment, leading to reduced healthcare spending on LBP.
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Acupuncture for rheumatic conditions - systematic review

Categories: Arthritis , Fibromyaigia, Back, Tennis Elbow
An overview of systematic reviews of acupuncture for rheumatic conditions has found relatively clear evidence to suggest that it is effective for osteoarthritis (OA), low back pain and lateral elbow pain, but ineffective for fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis. From their evaluation of the thirty systematic reviews that met their inclusion criteria, the authors concluded that for OA, low back pa ...
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Pre-treatment expectations don't predict outcomes for back pain

Categories: Back, Acupuncture research
The relationship between patients' expectations of acupuncture and their outcomes may be more complex than previously believed. When US investigators analysed data from a randomised trial of acupuncture for chronic back pain, they found that pre-treatment expectations and preferences for acupuncture were not predictive of treatment outcomes. 477 acupuncture-naïve participants with chronic low bac ...
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Acupuncture for spinal injury mobilises stem cells

Categories: Miscellaneous disorders, Back
Acupuncture for spinal cord injuries (SCI) can mobilise human stem cells, according to German research. Fourteen healthy volunteers were needled at acupuncture points used in the treatment of SCI, while control individuals received acupuncture at points not used for SCI. The number of CD133(+) haematopoetic stem cells in peripheral blood doubled 48 hours after acupuncture at SCI points, whereas co ...
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Tai chi for ankylosing spondylitis

Categories: Back, Tai chi
Korean investigators have examined the effect of tai chi on disease activity, flexibility and depression in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS). They allocated 40 patients to either a tai chi group or a no-treatment control group. The tai chi group attended two 60 minute group tai chi classes per week, and practised daily at home, for eight weeks. After eight weeks, the tai chi group showed ...
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