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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 for temporomandibular disorders

Categories: Temperomandibular / Jaw
Korean authors have found moderate evidence that acupuncture is effective at reducing symptoms associated with temporomandibular disorders (TMD). Nineteen studies were systematically reviewed. There was moderate evidence that classical acupuncture had a positive influence beyond that of placebo; had positive effects similar to occlusal splint therapy and was more effective for TMD symptoms than ph ...
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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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Acupuncture can improve endothelial dysfunction in hypertension

Categories: Stroke, Hypertension
A Korean study has shown that acupuncture can improve endothelial dysfunction in patients with hypertension. The pilot, double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover trial randomly assigned 15 patients with essential hypertension to a sequence of four acupuncture treatment phases, each lasting 15 minutes, with a seven-day washout period in between. Needles were inserted at bilateral Zusanli ST-36; Ne ...
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Acupuncture improves exercise tolerance in heart failure patients

Categories: Heart / Cardiac
Acupuncture can improve the exercise tolerance of patients with congestive heart failure (CHF), potentially by improving skeletal muscle function. Seventeen patients with CHF, all receiving optimised heart failure medication, were randomised into a verum acupuncture (VA) and placebo acupuncture (PA) group. The maximum distance that patients were capable of walking in six minutes increased signific ...
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Acupuncture increases muscle strength

Categories: Miscellaneous disorders, Acupuncture research
A single acupuncture treatment can increase isometric quadriceps strength, according to German authors. Thirty-three recreational athletes were randomised to receive acupuncture, sham acupuncture (needling at non-acupuncture points) and placebo laser acupuncture (deactivated laser device) in a double-blind crossover fashion, with one week between trials. The difference from baseline of the mean ch ...
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Acupuncture calms burning mouth syndrome

Categories: Miscellaneous disorders, Nose and mouth
Acupuncture can significantly reduce burning mouth syndrome, a chronic pathology of unknown aetiopathogenesis, probably due to its influence on oral microcirculation. In an observational study carried out by Italian investigators, thirty patients were treated with TCM acupuncture for three weeks. Oral microcirculation was observed using videocapillaroscopy at three times: in the absence of acupunc ...
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Acupuncture reduces hot flushes due to prostate cancer treatment

Categories: Cancer, Male disorders
Acupuncture can produce meaningful improvement in hot flush frequency for men undergoing androgen ablation therapy (AAT) for prostate cancer. In an observational study carried out in the USA, 22 patients underwent electroacupuncture biweekly for four weeks, then weekly for six weeks, using a predefined treatment plan. After four weeks, 41% of patients had a >50% reduction in the hot flush score ...
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Acupuncture improves sleep apnoea

Categories: Insomnia/sleep disorders, Respiratory disorders
Brazilian researchers have shown in a pilot study that acupuncture can improve the sleep pattern of patients with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA). Forty patients were randomly allocated to manual acupuncture (MA) treatment, 10 Hz electroacupuncture (EA) treatment, 2 Hz EA treatment, or a no-treatment control group. Apnoea scores and number of nocturnal respiratory events decreased significantly in ...
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Acupuncture benefits cancer patients

Categories: Cancer
Acupuncture treatment produces measurable benefits in symptom reduction and quality of life (QOL) for patients with advanced ovarian and breast cancer, according to US researchers. In a pilot, single-armed prospective trial, 40 patients with advanced cancer were enrolled to receive 12 acupuncture sessions over eight weeks, with follow-up at weeks 9 and 12. Among all 32 assessed patients, there was ...
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