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Clinical Evidence for Association of Acupuncture and Acupressure With Improved Cancer Pain

JAMA Oncology, 2019
This systematic review and meta-analysis provides an updated synthesis of the published randomized clinical trials into the use and advantages of acupuncture and/or acupressure among patients with cancer pain.
Yihan He, Xin-feng Guo, B. May, A. Zhang, Yihong Liu, Chuanjian Lu, J. Mao, C. Xue, Haibo Zhang   +8 more
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Methological quality of systematic reviews and meta-analyses on acupuncture for stroke: a review of review [PDF]

, 2017
Objective: To assess the methodological quality of systematic reviews and meta-analyses regarding acupuncture intervention for stroke and the primary studies within them.
Chen, Xin-Lin, Gao, Ri-Yang, Hu, Yue, Li, Xian-Tao, Lu, Li-ya, Mo, Chuan-Wei, Wu, Min-Feng, Xu, Qian, Zhou, Qian-Yi, Zhou, Xuan   +9 more
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The Clinical study on the change of pain after needle acupuncture and needle acupuncture combined herbal acupuncture therapy in the musculoskeletal disorder

Journal of Pharmacopuncture, 2005
Objective : This study was performed to compare needle acupuncture combined herbal acupuncture therapy with only needle acupuncture therapy in VAS and pain threshold.
Kim sung-chul, Lim jeong-a, Kim sung-nam, Lee sung-yong, Lee sang-kwan, Moon hyung-cheol, Koo sung-tae, Choi sun-mi   +7 more
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Evaluation of Acupuncture Efficacy in Modulating Brain Activity With Periodic-Aperiodic EEG Measurements

IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering
Acupuncture is an important therapeutic method of traditional Chinese medicine and can effectively modulate brain disorders. The therapeutic efficacy of acupuncture is hard to evaluate due to lacking of effective measurements of brain activity.
Haitao Yu, Fan Li, Jialin Liu, Dongliang Liu, Haolong Guo, Jiang Wang, Guiping Li   +6 more
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Acupuncture or acupressure for pain management during labour.

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2020
BACKGROUND Many women would like to avoid pharmacological or invasive methods of pain management in labour and this may contribute towards the popularity of complementary methods of pain management.
C. Smith, C. Collins, Kate M Levett, M. Armour, H. Dahlen, Aidan L Tan, B. Mesgarpour   +6 more
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Stimulation of TRPV1 by green laser light [PDF]

, 2012
Low-level laser irradiation of visible light had been introduced as a medical treatment already more than 40 years ago, but its medical application still remains controversial.
Gu, Quanbao, Huang, Fang, Schwarz, Wolfgang, Wang, Lina   +3 more
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Manual acupuncture versus sham acupuncture and usual care for the prevention of primary dysmenorrhea (PD): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Trials, 2020
Background Primary dysmenorrhea (PD) is a leading cause of dysmenorrhea among adolescent girls. Manual acupuncture may be considered as an effective treatment for PD, but high-quality evidence remains limited. This trial aims to evaluate the efficacy and
Lingling Yu, Shiqin Liu, Cuihong Zheng, Wenhua Liu, Hua Wang, Fengxia Liang, Wei Lu, Shabei Xu, Wei Wang   +8 more
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Modulatory effect of acupuncture at Waiguan (TE5) on the functional connectivity of the central nervous system of patients with ischemic stroke in the left basal ganglia. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
To study the influence of acupuncture at Waiguan (TE5) on the functional connectivity of the central nervous system of patients with ischemic stroke.Twenty-four patients with ischemic stroke in the left basal ganglia were randomized based on gender to ...
Junqi Chen, Jizhou Wang, Yong Huang, Xinsheng Lai, Chunzhi Tang, Junjun Yang, Junxian Wu, Tongjun Zeng, Shanshan Qu   +8 more
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Long-Term Effects of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Hypnotherapy in Patients with Severe Endometriosis - a Retrospective Evaluation [PDF]

, 2010
Background: 15% of patients with severe endometriosis suffer from pain symptoms in spite of pharmacological and surgical treatments. In this retrospective study we aimed to assess the effectiveness of a combined therapy of Traditional Chinese medicine ...
Böhling, Barbara, Meissner, Karin, Schweizer-Arau, Annemaria   +2 more
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Acupuncture Attenuates Inflammation in Microglia of Vascular Dementia Rats by Inhibiting miR-93-Mediated TLR4/MyD88/NF-κB Signaling Pathway

Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, 2020
Background It is widely accepted that inflammation may contribute to cognitive impairment in patients with vascular dementia (VD). Our prior clinical researches have reported that acupuncture can alleviate cognitive function in VD, but the underlying ...
Lu Wang, Jing-Wen Yang, Li-Ting Lin, Jin Huang, Xuerui Wang, Xin-Tong Su, Yan Cao, M. Fisher, Cun-Zhi Liu   +8 more
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