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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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AURICULAR ACUPUNCTURE FOR LOW BACK & PELVIC PAIN IN PREGNANCY

Categories: Pregnancy & labour
One week of continuous auricular acupuncture decreases the pain and disability experienced by women with pregnancy-related low back and posterior pelvic pain. In a randomised controlled trial, American clinicians randomly assigned pregnant women to continuous auricular acupuncture, sham auricular acupuncture or a waiting list control. All participants were monitored for two weeks. Participants in ...
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GINGER STOPS NAUSEA AND VOMITING IN PREGNANCY

Categories: Pregnancy & labour
Ginger (Sheng Jiang) is an effective remedy for nausea and vomiting during pregnancy. A single blind clinical trial carried out in Iran randomly assigned 67 pregnant women to receive either 1000 mg ginger in capsules or placebo capsules for four days. Ginger users demonstrated a higher rate of nausea improvement than placebo users (85% versus 56%). The decrease in vomiting among ginger users was a ...
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ACUPUNCTURE & TENNIS ELBOW

Categories: Tennis Elbow
Of 55 patients with chronic lateral epicondylitis, 23 were treated with real acupuncture and 22 received sham acupuncture, all receiving 10 treatments, with two treatments per week. At two weeks and 2 months after the end of treatment, there were significant reductions in pain intensity and improvements in the function of the arm and in maximal strength in both treatment groups. At 2-weeks all the ...
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ACUPUNCTURE AND TENNIS ELBOW

Categories: Tennis Elbow
A study on the treatment of tennis elbow using only Yanglingquan GB-34 on the affected side reports that most patients obtained pain relief of 70% (mean pain relief 55%). The results were significantly higher than in a placebo group treated by light pressure at Feishu BL-13. The results were assessed blindly immediately after treatment. (Molsberger A, Hill E, British Journal of Rheumatology, 33: 1 ...
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ACUPUNCTURE AND TENNIS ELBOW

Categories: Tennis Elbow
A German placebo-controlled single-blind trial into the treatment of tennis elbow compared a single-needle traditionally selected treatment with a placebo non-penetrative treatment. Pain relief occurred in 55.8% of the treatment group and 15% in the control group. 79.2% of the treatment group reported pain relief of at least 50% after only one treatment. (Molsberger, A. et. al The analgesic effect ...
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ACUPUNCTURE AND CORTICOSTEROIDS

Categories: Tennis Elbow
A study carried out in the North of England suggests that patients with tennis elbow who receive acupuncture immediately before injection of corticosteroids respond to much lower doses of corticosteroids than those who do not receive acupuncture first (Acupuncture in Medicine Nov. 1997 Vol. 15 No2, p77).
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TENNIS ELBOW & ACUPUNCTURE

Categories: Tennis Elbow
In a study carried out at Hanover Medical School, 45 patients with chronic lateral epicondylitis were each given two acupuncture treatments, real or sham, every week for 5 weeks. 2 weeks after the end of treatment the group who received real acupuncture demonstrated significantly more improvement in strength, pain intensity and arm function than the sham group, although the improvement was limited ...
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ACUPUNCTURE FOR TENNIS ELBOW PAIN

Categories: Tennis Elbow
A systematic review of published studies on the effect of acupuncture on lateral elbow (tennis elbow) pain has concluded that "there is strong evidence suggesting that acupuncture is effective in short-term pain relief for patients with lateral epicondyle pain". The studies reviewed were all randomised or quasi-randomised and acupuncture was the only intervention used in the treatment gr ...
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ACUPUNCTURE EASES TMJ PAIN

Categories: Temperomandibular / Jaw
A double-blind randomised controlled trial followed twenty-seven patients suffering from temporomandibular joint myofascial pain (TMJ/MP) who were assigned to receive either real acupuncture or a sham acupuncture intervention. Real acupuncture was found to have a greater influence than sham acupuncture on clinical outcome measures of TMJ/MP and changes in the majority of measures reached a level o ...
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