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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 1747 to 1755 of 2280 total

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ACUPUNCTURE MINIMALLY BENEFICIAL FOR OSTEOARTHRITIS

Categories: Arthritis
The latest systematic review to assess the effects of acupuncture for treating peripheral joint osteoarthritis (OA) has concluded that although there is evidence of benefit, it is probably not clinically relevant and may be partially due to placebo effects. The German authors included 16 trials involving 3498 people in their analysis. In comparison with a sham control, acupuncture showed statistic ...
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ACUPUNCTURE MAKES WALKING EASIER

Categories: Knee
Walking gait patterns in knee osteoarthritis (OA) patients are significantly improved after acupuncture, probably due to pain relief, according to Taiwanese researchers. Twenty patients with bilateral medial knee OA were randomly assigned either to a standard 30-minute electro-acupuncture treatment or a sham treatment. Visual analog scale (VAS) pain scores decreased significantly after acupuncture ...
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Acupuncture helps with temporomandibular disorders

Categories: Temperomandibular / Jaw
Needling active myofascial trigger points (TrPs) in the jaw muscles of patients with temporomandibular disorders (TMDs) increases pain tolerance and improves jaw-opening ability, according to research carried out in Spain. Twelve female TMD patients attended two treatment sessions on separate days and at each visit were randomly assigned to receive either deep or sham needling at the most painful ...
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Acupuncture helps with prostatitis pain

Categories: Male disorders, Pelvic
A pilot study in Turkey has found that acupuncture can improve symptoms and quality of life for men diagnosed with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS). A cohort of 97 patients received six weekly sessions of acupuncture at bilateral Zhongliao BL-33. The results showed that there was a statistically significant decrease in all prostatitis symptom scores (pain, urinary functio ...
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Acupuncture reduces lure of smoking images

Categories: Substance abuse
Korean researchers have found that acupuncture treatment can reduce the amount of attention that smokers pay to smoking-related visual cues, and that this is associated with improvement in cigarette withdrawal symptoms. Previous research into substance abuse has shown that addictive behaviours are characterised by increased selective attention (attentional bias) towards substance-related stimuli. ...
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Acupuncture effective alternative for pregnancy depression

Categories: Psychological / emotional, Pregnancy & labour
Acupuncture is an effective treatment for depression during pregnancy, according to a new American study. A hundred and fifty pregnant women with a diagnosis of major depression were randomised to receive 12 sessions of acupuncture consisting of a standardised point prescription specific for depression, or one of two active controls - control acupuncture or massage - over eight weeks. Women who re ...
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Qigong & drug addiction

Categories: Qigong
A study carried out at the Changzhou Drug Treatment Centre in China by Prof. Kevin Chen (of the University of Medicine & Dentistry, Newark, New Jersey) and two Chinese colleagues, has examined the potential benefit of qigong in heroin addiction. 86 heroin addicts between the ages of 18 and 52 years who had been using heroin for an average of 5.5 years, were divided into 3 groups. The qigong gr ...
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Qigong, tai chi and diabetes

Categories: Qigong
A pilot study funded by the Diabetes Australia Research Trust and carried out by a team from the University of Queensland has indicated that qigong and tai chi exercises can significantly improve several markers of metabolic syndrome. At the end of the three month study, the 11 participants demonstrated significant improvement in several indicators of metabolic syndrome including HbA1c, blood pres ...
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Qigong training reduces computer operator's stress

Categories: Qigong
A study has investigated the effects of qigong on stress among computer operators. Ten women were included in a qigong exercise group and an equal number in a control group. Heart rate, blood pressure and finger temperature were measured at the beginning and end of the working day over a period of five weeks. Twenty-four hour urine samples were collected in the first and last weeks to measure cate ...
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