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Pneumothorax Secondary to Acupuncture Therapy
Southern Medical Journal, 2006A 27-year-old medical student seeking acupuncture therapy for a right levator scapular muscle spasm developed acute dyspnea, chest pain, and nonproductive cough within minutes following the treatment. The patient was later diagnosed with a 30% pneumothorax of the right lung.
Ryan J, Chauffe, Ann L, Duskin
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Somato stimulation and acupuncture therapy
Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine, 2016Acupuncture is an oldest somato stimulus medical technique. As the most representative peripheral nerve stimulation therapy, it has a complete system of theory and application and is applicable to a large population. This paper expounds the bionic origins of acupuncture and analyzes the physiological mechanism by which acupuncture works.
Jing-Jun, Zhao +4 more
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Acupuncture for infertility: Is it an effective therapy?
Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine, 2011Acupuncture has been used to treat infertility extensively, including ovulatory dysfunction, in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer (IVF-ET), and male infertility. This review summarizes the recent studies which investigated the role of acupuncture in infertility.
Dong-mei, Huang +5 more
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Acupuncture in Medicine, 1993
Eighty consecutive patients, with good experience of acupuncture, were questioned about their clinical response to acupuncture. This is classified as immediate, intermediate and therapeutic. The long term therapeutic response was delayed in onset by 3 or more days in 50% of the patients. Most scientific study concentrates on the immediate reactions, so
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Eighty consecutive patients, with good experience of acupuncture, were questioned about their clinical response to acupuncture. This is classified as immediate, intermediate and therapeutic. The long term therapeutic response was delayed in onset by 3 or more days in 50% of the patients. Most scientific study concentrates on the immediate reactions, so
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Acupuncture Therapy for Persistent Hiccups
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 2002Persistent hiccups (singultus) is a rare but severely disabling disorder. The causes of persistent hiccups are numerous, as are the treatment options. However, none of the treatment modalities has proven to be effective by evidence-based criteria, and no treatment has been shown to be superior to another. Traditional acupuncture has not been previously
Elad, Schiff +3 more
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Acupuncture Therapy for Stroke Patients
2013Acupuncture is one of the most important parts of Traditional Chinese Medicine, has been used for more than 3000 years as prevention and treatment for various diseases in China as well as in adjacent regions, and is widely accepted in western countries in recent years.
Xin, Li, Qiang, Wang
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Acupuncture therapy for tennis elbow
Pain, 1983Acupuncture therapy for patients suffering from tennis elbow has shown itself to be an excellent alternative to steroid injections. Twenty-one out of 34 patients who were treated with acupuncture became much better--completely free of pain. Many of them had previously been given one or more steroid injections without improvement.
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Acupuncture Therapy for Psychiatric Illness
2013Acupuncture has traditionally been used for problems including anxiety, insomnia, stress, and depression in China and other East Asian countries. A range of different neurobiological responses to acupuncture have been investigated including modulation of serotonergic, noradrenergic, and dopaminergic systems; effects on GABA and the hypothalamic ...
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Acupuncture Therapy for Stroke
2010In this chapter, we shall review the clinic application of acupuncture treatment on stroke, and the mechanistic research on animal models of ischemic brain infarction. Acupuncture has been employed to treat patients with stroke in China as well as other oriental countries. Clinical data suggest that patients show better outcome and require less nursing
Jingchun Guo, Jieshi Cheng, Ying Xia
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