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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 QUICKLY IMPROVES CHRONIC LOW BACK PAIN

Categories: Back
A pilot study designed to test the feasibility of a randomised controlled trial comparing the effectiveness of two frequencies of acupuncture treatment for chronic low back pain (LBP) has found that clinical improvements achieved within the first two weeks were maintained at one year follow-up. Thirty participants with chronic LBP were randomised into two groups to receive 10 acupuncture treatment ...
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AURICULAR ACUPUNCTURE FOR LOW BACK & PELVIC PAIN IN PREGNANCY

Categories: Back
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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ACUPUNCTURE BETTER THAN INJECTIONS FOR BACK PAIN

Categories: Back
Japanese researchers have found acupuncture to be superior to injection of local anaesthetic for the treatment of lower back pain. Twenty six patients were randomly allocated to either acupuncture or local anaesthetic injection at two to five of the most painful points on the lower back once per week for four weeks. Both injection and acupuncture relieved pain, but there was a significant differen ...
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BACK PAIN? TELL ME ABOUT YOUR CHILDHOOD

Categories: Back
A British author has suggested that the effect of acupuncture treatment on low back pain may be determined by the quality of the relationship between the patient and their mother during the first 18 months of their life. Previous authors have suggested that activation of C tactile afferent nerve fibres, which respond to light touch and project to the brain's limbic system, can induce a 'limbic tou ...
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ACUPUNCTURE AND WEIGHT LOSS

Categories: Obesity
It is known that acupuncture stimulates the auricular branch of the vagal nerve and raises serotonin levels, both of which have been shown to increase tone in the smooth muscle of the stomach, thus suppressing appetite. The aim of this Australian study was to determine the effectiveness of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) of specific auricular acupuncture points on appetite suppr ...
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Ear acupuncture for weight loss

Categories: Obesity
In a study carried out in a psychiatric hospital, 45 patients with psychoactive-drug-induced obesity and 44 obese patients not taking such medication were randomised to receive either ear acupuncture, sham acupuncture or ear acupuncture plus physical exercise sessions. In both the drug and no-drug induced obesity groups, those who received true ear acupuncture lost weight (2.6kg average) whilst th ...
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ELECTROACUPUNCTURE TREATMENT OF OBESITY

Categories: Obesity
A Turkish study has investigated the effects of electroacupuncture (EA) on obesity and accompanying psychological symptoms. One hundred and sixty-five female volunteers were divided into three groups: EA, placebo EA, and diet restriction. EA was performed using three ear and six body points. Patients receiving EA experienced a 4.8% reduction in weight compared with a 2.7% weight reduction for plac ...
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ACUPUNCTURE FOR WEIGHT LOSS

Categories: Obesity
Korean authors have carried out a meta-analysis of 29 studies of acupuncture for obesity. Compared to control of lifestyle, acupuncture was associated with a significant reduction in average body weight of 1.72 kg and associated with an improvement in obesity. Acupuncture significantly reduced body weight by an average of 1.56 kg compared with placebo or sham treatments. Acupuncture also showed mo ...
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Acupuncture & parkinson's disease

Categories: Neurological
Twenty Parkinson's Disease (PD) patients (mean age 68 years; disease duration 8.5 years) each received acupuncture treatments by a licensed acupuncturist. All patients were treated with two acupuncture treatment sessions per week. The first seven patients received 10 treatments and the last 13 patients 16 treatments. Patients were evaluated before and after acupuncture with the Sickness Impact Pro ...
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