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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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Acupuncture and spine cord injury

Categories: Back, Spinal cord
Acupuncture is effective in treating chronic pain following spinal cord injury (SCI) according to research carried out at the Department of Psychiatry, New Jersey Medical School. Twenty-two patients with SCI who suffered moderate to severe pain of at least six months duration received a course of 15 acupuncture treatments over a seven and a half week period after an equivalent assessment period wi ...
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ACUPUNCTURE & LOWER BACK PAIN

Categories: Back
The US Agency for Healthcare Policy & Research and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine have awarded a $1 million grant to study acupuncture as a treatment for chronic lower back pain. The 100-patient study will be carried out collaboratively between the Group Center for Health Studies (the USA's largest consumer-governed healthcare organisation with more than 650,000 ...
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ACUPUNCTURE & BACK PAIN

Categories: Back
A German study into the treatment of chronic back pain has compared the benefits of: 1: true acupuncture plus conservative orthopaedic treatment, 2: sham acupuncture plus conservative orthopaedic treatment, 3: conservative orthopaedic treatment alone. The true acupuncture consisted of needling Shenshu BL-23, Weizhong BL-40, Kunlun BL-60, Jingmen GB-25, Huantiao GB-30, Yanglingquan GB-34, and up to ...
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ACUPUNCTURE & CHRONIC LOW BACK PAIN

Categories: Back
In this German study, 174 patients with chronic low back pain (lasting longer than 6 weeks, and with no pending compensation claims) were randomly assigned to receive either i. True acupuncture plus conservative orthopaedic treatment (COT), ii. Sham acupuncture plus COT, or iii. COT alone. Both acupuncture groups received 3 treatments per week for 4 weeks, and both the patients and an observer wer ...
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ACUPUNCTURE & CHRONIC LOW BACK PAIN

Categories: Back
In a study into the potential benefits of acupuncture for chronic low back pain in the elderly (over 60 years old), 23 patients were randomised to receive their normal care (NSAIDs, muscle relaxants, paracetamol and back exercises) and 24 to additionally receive bi-weekly electro-acupuncture for 5 weeks. The acupuncture group had a significant decrease in RDQ (Roland Disability Questionnaire) scor ...
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ACUPUNCTURE FOR BACK PAIN IN PREGNANCY

Categories: Pregnancy & labour, Back
A Brazilian study which compared the levels of low back and pelvic pain in women treated by acupuncture compared to non-treated controls, found that the acupuncture group showed a greater reduction in overall pain, maximum pain and  pain at the time of interview, reduced use of analgesics, and greater capacity to perform general activities, to walk and to work. (Acupuncture in Medicine, 2004 ...
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ACUPRESSURE EFFECTIVE FOR LOW BACK PAIN

Categories: Back
A Taiwanese study randomly assigned 146 chronic lower back pain patients to receive either standard physical therapy or fifteen-minute acupressure treatments (six treatments over four weeks for both groups). At the end of the  study, the average pain scores had decreased from 9.29 (baseline) to 2.28 in the acupressure group and from 7.68 to 5.13 in the physical therapy group. Interestingly th ...
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ACUPUNCTURE FOR PELVIC AND BACK PAIN IN PREGNANCY

Categories: Back
In this Swedish study, 72 pregnant women (24-37 weeks) suffering pelvic or low back pain were randomly assigned to an acupuncture group or a control group. Traditional acupuncture points and ahshi points were needled (with deqi elicited) in individualised treatments, once or twice a week until disappearance of symptoms or delivery in the acupuncture group. Treatment was given for at least three we ...
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Ear acupuncture for back pain

Categories: Back
A randomised controlled trial compared manual and electrical stimulation of the same auricular points (lumbar spine, shenmen and cushion). 61 adults with chronic back pain (more than 6 months) that did not respond to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs were randomly assigned to a manual or an electrical stimulation group (treatment given for 6 weeks with a 3-month follow-up). Criteria assessed i ...
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