Research Archive

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ACUPUNCTURE FOR FEMALE GENITAL PAIN

Categories: Gynaecology

A Canadian pilot study has found that acupuncture has positive effects on provoked vestibulodynia (PVD), a distressing genital pain condition affecting women. Eight women with PVD (mean age 30) underwent ten one-hour acupuncture sessions with needle placement according to an individual TCM diagnosis. Analysis of the results showed significant decreases in helplessness (a measure on the Pain Catast ...

MOXIBUSTION EFFECTIVE FOR BREECH PRESENTATION

Categories: Gynaecology

UK researchers exploring the effects of moxibustion on breech presentation have concluded that it creates a better chance of achieving vaginal delivery. In a prospective multicentre study, 76 pregnant women were taught how to apply moxibustion and instructed to continue it at home, twice a day, for seven days. If breech presentation persisted after treatment, external cephalic version (ECV) was ca ...

ACUPUNCTURE FOR MENOPAUSAL HOT FLUSHES

Categories: Gynaecology, Menopausal syndrome

A multicentre randomised clinical study of menopausal women has concluded that acupuncture carried out in addition to usual care is associated with marked clinical improvement in hot flushes and other menopause-related symptoms. One hundred and seventy five Korean women were randomised to receive 12 sessions of acupuncture over four weeks in addition to usual care, or to usual care alone. The mean ...

Acupuncture and fibromyalgia

Categories: Fibromyaigia

Fibromyalgia is a chronic painful musculoskeletal syndrome of unknown aetiology, characterised by generalised pains in the connective tissues of the body and specific area of knotted muscle fibre - called "trigger points" which are especially painful. It is generally treated with a combination of analgesics and vigorous massage. A recent review of the literature on the treatment of fibro ...

Acupuncture passes the fibromyalgia test

Categories: Fibromyaigia

Fibromyalgia patients treated with six sessions of acupuncture experienced significant symptomatic improvement compared to a group given sham acupuncture. 50 patients with moderate to severe, recalcitrant fibromyalgia, for whom other symptom-relief treatments were ineffective, were randomly assigned to receive acupuncture or sham acupuncture (neither group knew which), administered in six sessions ...

Acupuncture effective for fibromyalgia

Categories: Fibromyaigia

Two studies have demonstrated benefit from acupuncture in the treatment of fibromyalgia. In the first, published in Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, 21 patients completed the study. All received 16 treatments over eight weeks, alternating points on the back with points on the front of the body. The Fibromyalgia Impact Scores (twenty questions designed to assess how fibromyalgia affect ...

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ACUPUNCTURE FOR FEMALE GENITAL PAIN

MOXIBUSTION EFFECTIVE FOR BREECH PRESENTATION

ACUPUNCTURE FOR MENOPAUSAL HOT FLUSHES

Acupuncture and fibromyalgia

Acupuncture passes the fibromyalgia test

Acupuncture effective for fibromyalgia

Acupuncture for assisted reproduction

Acupuncture regulates hormones during IVF preparation

Acupuncture increases IVF success

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