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Identification of major traditional acupuncture points for pain control using network analysis

Acupuncture in Medicine, 2020
During clinical acupuncture treatment, some traditional acupuncture point locations (hereafter referred to as ‘points’) are targeted only for specific conditions, while other ‘major’ points (e.g.
In-Seon Lee, Younbyoung Chae
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Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation on Acupuncture Points Improves Myofascial Pain, Moods, and Sleep Quality.

Rehabilitation Nursing, 2019
PURPOSE The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation at acupuncture points versus trigger points on myofascial pain, moods, and sleep quality.
Yar-Fang Chiou   +2 more
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Differential Innervation of Tissues Located at Traditional Acupuncture Points in the Rat Forehead and Face

Acupuncture in Medicine, 2018
Objectives To compare the neural pathways associated with the tissues located at different traditional acupuncture points in the rat forehead and face using the cholera toxin B subunit (CTB) neural tracing technique.
Jia Wang   +6 more
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Acupuncture Point Specificity

2013
Acupuncture, as a modality treatment, has gained increasing popularity and acceptance between public and health-care professionals worldwide. Recently, there has been intensive debate about the efficacy of acupuncture therapy due to the conflicting outcome of clinical trials.
Jing-jing Xing   +4 more
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THERMOVISUAL EVALUATION OF ACUPUNCTURE POINTS

Acupuncture & Electro-Therapeutics Research, 2001
The aim of our study is to evaluate the temperature distributions around the acupuncture points and channels by visualizing the infrared emissions emanated from the human skin. Our thermal imaging system that is the most sensitive to 10um long infrared wavelength allows us to recognize the actual location of acupuncture point and analyze its functional
Aleck Ovechkin   +2 more
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Ear Acupuncture Points in Neonates

The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 2008
The aim of this study was to determine the presence and absence of acupuncture ear points in healthy neonates.This was a prospective observational study performed at a university teaching hospital.The subjects were healthy neonates. We compared male and female neonates, right and left lobe, term and preterm deliveries, and cesarean sections versus ...
Daniel Surbek   +4 more
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Effects of music in combination with vibration in acupuncture points on the treatment of fibromyalgia.

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 2015
OBJECTIVE Fibromyalgia (FM) is a disease that causes widespread pain and increased sensitivity to pain because of a dysfunction in the central nervous system.
A. Weber   +3 more
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Electrophysiological Assessment of Acupuncture Points

American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, 2006
This study was designed to assess the occurrence of end plate noise (EPN) in an acupuncture point (AcP).Ten male and 10 female normal volunteers were included in this study. For each subject, mapping of the distribution of EPN loci in an AcP region of Stomach-36 in one leg selected randomly, and also in a nearby non-AcP region in the other leg as a ...
Fang-Juan Kuo   +3 more
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Acupuncture: what's the point?

British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2016
Acupuncture is a widely used treatment in many different fields from pain management to sports medicine, and it often creates much discussion and debate. What actually constitutes acupuncture? Traditional Eastern acupuncture involves piercing the skin with fine filament needles at specific points located on meridians around the body to restore the flow
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Acupuncture points and cutaneous nerves [PDF]

open access: possibleExperientia, 1979
In view of the number of workers who have confirmed the presence of cutaneous nerves beneath acupuncture points, a plea is made not to dismiss them too lightly or hastily at this point in the search for the mechanisms of acupuncture.
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