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Research Archive
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 as good as drugs for acute herpetic pain
Categories: Skin / dermatology, Miscellaneous
An Italian RCT has found that acupuncture is as effective as standard drug treatment for acute pain in patients with herpes zoster (HZ).
Meditation makes pain less unpleasant by changing subjective experience of pain
Categories: Miscellaneous, Lifestyle research
Meditation can significantly reduce the unpleasantness of a noxious stimulus by engaging multiple brain mechanisms that alter the way the brain constructs the subjective experience of pain.
Acupuncture has greater analgesic effects than non-penetrating sham
Categories: Miscellaneous, Acupuncture research
Verum acupuncture has a significantly greater analgesic effect than non-penetrating sham acupuncture (NPSA), according to a group of European researchers (including Konrad Streitberger who developed the sham acupuncture needle).
Ear acupuncture effective for pain management
Categories: Miscellaneous, Acupuncture research
US authors have conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies evaluating auricular acupuncture (AA) for pain management.
Needling depth matters for muscle pain
Categories: Miscellaneous, Acupuncture research
Depth of needle penetration is important for relief of exercise-induced muscular pain, according to a Japanese acupuncture study carried out on twenty-two healthy volunteers.
Ginger relieves muscle soreness
Daily supplementation with ginger root (Gan Jiang [Zingiberis Rhizoma]) has been found to reduce exercise-induced pain by 25%.
Acupuncture-like TENS less effective in opioid-treated patients
Categories: Miscellaneous, Acupuncture research
A Canadian study has compared the analgesic effect of conventional (high frequency) and acupuncture-like (low frequency) TENS between a group of opioid-treated patients and a group of opioid-naive patients
Tai chi relieves arthritis pain and aids fibromyalgia
A randomised controlled trial carried out in the USA has evaluated the effectiveness of a six-week tai chi course in reducing symptoms, increasing function and improving psychosocial status in arthritis patients. In the largest study to date carried out under the Arthritis Foundation Tai Chi program, 332 participants were randomly assigned to treatment or a waiting list control. The tai chi interv ...
Acupuncture for fibromyalgia
Categories: Fibromyaigia, Miscellaneous
A systematic review of TCM therapies for treatment of fibromyalgia has concluded that they appear to be effective. The authors looked at twenty-five RCTs (1516 participants) of which ten were eligible for meta-analysis. Acupuncture reduced pain scores and number of tender points compared with conventional medication, however it showed no significant effect on pain reduction compared with sham acup ...
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