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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 analgesia: an experimental investigation. [PDF]
BMJ, 1976 A study was designed to establish whether acupuncture has any analgesic properties beyond those of suggestion. In three one-hour experimental sessions the increases in detection thresholds and tolerances for thermal pain at six body locations on 12 subjects were compared.
D, Stewart, J, Thomson, I, Oswald
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Acupuncture Analgesia in Total Thyroidectomy for Graves’ Disease: A Case Report
Journal of Acupuncture Research, 2023 This study included a 42-year-old female farmer with a 2-year history of Graves’ disease who visited the hospital for a total thyroidectomy for her grade III goiter based on World Health Organization classification. Besides Hegu (LI4) and Neiguan (PC6)
Dong Phuong Tran
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CENTRAL MECHANISMS OF ACUPUNCTURE ANALGESIA
International Journal of Physiotherapy, 2015 Background: Acupuncture is an component of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) that has been used for three thousand years to treat diseases and relieve pain. Pain is found to be the most common reason for people to use acupuncture.
Eman S. Mansour +2 more
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Acupuncture Mechanisms: Anesthesia, Analgesia and Protection on Organ Functions
World Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 2015 Acupuncture, as a healing art in traditional Chinese medicine, has been widely used to treat various diseases. In the history of acupuncture anesthesia, in the past decades, mechanisms of acupuncture analgesia has been widely investigated, and in recent ...
Jing Wang, You Wan
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Acupuncture for pain control after degenerative lumbar spine surgery
European Journal of Medical Research, 2022 Background Wound pain after surgery for lumbar spine disease may interfere with patients’ recovery. Acupuncture is commonly used for pain management, but its efficacy for postoperative pain control is unclear.
Bo-An Chen, Wen-Chun Deng, Mao-Yu Chen
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针刺研究, 2022 Relief of the chronic pain, as the negative reinforcement of pain, is recognized as a reward and it activates related brain's reward circultries. Brian's reward circuits not only relate to rewards, but also participate in pain process.
LIU Sheng
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Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice, 1992 Acupuncture-produced surgical analgesia has been demonstrated in a wide variety of species under experimental and clinical circumstances. The main advantage is that no depressant drugs need to be used. The disadvantages of its use are unfamiliarity, the need for special equipment, inconsistent effects, and lack of restraint.
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针刺研究, 2021 Acupuncture is effective for the management and treatment of pain related diseases. At present, the patients' subjective evaluations were often used to measure the effect of acupuncture analgesia in clinical research, but it lacks objectivity and ...
WEI Xiao-ya +7 more
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Acupuncture-Induced Analgesia: The Role of Microglial Inhibition
Cell Transplantation, 2016 The last three decades have documented preclinical and clinical data supporting the use of acupuncture in relieving symptoms of many diseases, including allergies, infections, and neurological disorders.
Lili Lin +6 more
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