Acupuncture Analgesia in Patients With Traumatic Rib Fractures: A Randomized-Controlled Trial. [PDF]
Front Med (Lausanne), 2022 Pain management for traumatic rib fracture is important to prevent complications and reduce associated comorbidities. This trial investigated the analgesic efficacy of acupuncture on traumatic rib fracture.
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Mechanosensitive TRPV4 Channel-Induced Extracellular ATP Accumulation at the Acupoint Mediates Acupuncture Analgesia of Ankle Arthritis in Rats. [PDF]
Life (Basel), 2021 (1) Background: Acupuncture (AP) is a safe and effective analgesic therapy. Understanding how fine needles trigger biological signals can help us optimize needling manipulation to improve its efficiency.
Zheng Y +7 more
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Effect of "needle sensation" and the real-time changes in autonomic nervous system activity during acupuncture analgesia. [PDF]
Front NeurosciIntroduction Acupuncture analgesia (AA) is widely used in clinical practice. The autonomic nervous system (ANS) may be an important pathway for acupuncture signal transduction. However, real-time changes in autonomic function during AA and the effect of “
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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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The Status of the Quality Control in Neuroimaging Studies of Acupuncture Analgesia. [PDF]
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2020 Neuroimaging technology is an important technology used to explore the neural mechanisms of acupuncture analgesia. In this study, we extracted original studies published in Chinese and English focusing on the use of neuroimaging technology to explore the
Gao Z, Liu G, Zhang J, Ji L.
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Daily Caffeine Consumption Does Not Influence Acupuncture Analgesia in Healthy Individuals: A Preliminary Study. [PDF]
Anesth Analg, 2021 Animal studies suggest that caffeine may interfere with acupuncture analgesia. This study investigated the modulation effect of daily caffeine intake on acupuncture analgesia in 27 healthy subjects using a crossover design. We found that real acupuncture
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Acupuncture-Analgesia-Mediated Alleviation of Central Sensitization. [PDF]
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2019 Pain can trigger central amplification called central sensitization, which ultimately results in hyperalgesia and/or allodynia. Many reports have showed acupuncture has an analgesic effect.
Lai HC, Lin YW, Hsieh CL.
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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.
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Central and Peripheral Mechanism of Acupuncture Analgesia on Visceral Pain: A Systematic Review. [PDF]
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2019 Background/Aims Despite the wide use of acupuncture for the management of visceral pain and the growing interest in the pathophysiology of visceral pain, there is no conclusive elucidation of the mechanisms behind the effects of acupuncture on visceral ...
Lee IS, Cheon S, Park JY.
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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 ...
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