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Chinese Medicine, 2009 Placebo-control of acupuncture is used to evaluate and distinguish between the specific effects and the non-specific ones. During 'true' acupuncture treatment in general, the needles are inserted into acupoints and stimulated until deqi is evoked.
Irène Lund +2 more
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Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 2002 With the increasing availability of acupuncture in the United States, it is possible that patients will increasingly seek and use acupuncture for diverse indications. Research into acupuncture is still in its infancy, and much of the scientific evidence surrounding it is fragmentary and often contradictory.
Vickers, A +2 more
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Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2013 Worldwide, acupuncture is integral to everyday medical practice. In recent decades its practice has gained popularity in the United States. With increasing evidence of its clinical efficacy, acupuncture is now a widely practiced treatment modality in complementary and integrative medicine.
Tony Y, Chon, Mark C, Lee
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Contemporary management of pain in cirrhosis: Toward precision therapy for pain
Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract Chronic pain is highly prevalent in patients with cirrhosis and is associated with poor health‐related quality of life and poor functional status. However, there is limited guidance on appropriate pain management in this population, and pharmacologic treatment can be harmful, leading to adverse outcomes, such as gastrointestinal bleeding ...
Alexis Holman +4 more
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Acupuncture for Schizophrenia [PDF]
Schizophrenia Bulletin, 2014 Acupuncture, with many categories such as traditional acupuncture, electroacupuncture, laser acupuncture, and acupoint injection, has been shown to be relatively safe with few adverse effects. It is accessible and inexpensive, at least in China, and is likely to be widely used there for psychotic symptoms.To review the effects of acupuncture, alone or ...
Xiaohong, Shen, Jun, Xia, Clive E, Adams
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Acupuncture for glaucoma [PDF]
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2020 Glaucoma is a multi-factorial optic neuropathy characterized by an acquired loss of retinal ganglion cells at levels beyond normal age-related loss and corresponding atrophy of the optic nerve. Although many treatments are available to manage glaucoma, patients may seek complementary or alternative medicine approaches such as acupuncture to supplement ...
Simon K, Law, Lin, Wang, Tianjing, Li
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A Narrative Review of Neuroimaging Studies in Acupuncture for Migraine
Pain Research and Management, 2021 Acupuncture has been widely used as an alternative and complementary therapy for migraine. With the development of neuroimaging techniques, the central mechanism of acupuncture for migraine has gained increasing attention.
Peihong Ma +11 more
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Australian Veterinary Journal, 1974 Acupuncture has been used in China for at least 4,000 years and according to some authorities was said to have been devised about twenty-six centuries B.C. Its use in Britain dated back to the early years of the nineteenth century and indeed it was a subject which appeared on the pages of the first volume of the Lancet in 1823. It has also been used in
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Acupuncture Point Localization Varies Among Acupuncturists [PDF]
, 2012 Background: Studies assessing the point-specific effect of acupuncture or the characteristics of acupuncture points (APs) tend to yield inconclusive results.
Kramer, Sybille +3 more
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Acupuncture in Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis (ACUSAR) - Design and Protocol of a Randomised Controlled Multi-Centre Trial [PDF]
, 2010 Background: We report on the study design and protocol of a randomised controlled trial (Acupuncture in Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis, ACUSAR) that investigates the efficacy of acupuncture in the treatment of seasonal allergic rhinitis (SAR).
Witt, Claudia M. +23 more
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