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Pneumothorax Secondary to Acupuncture Therapy [PDF]
Southern Medical Journal, 2006 A 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.
Ann L Duskin, Ryan J Chauffe
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Somato stimulation and acupuncture therapy [PDF]
Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine, 2016 Acupuncture 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.
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Pain Secondary to Acupuncture Therapy
CRANIO®, 1988AbstractAlthough acupuncture is used increasingly as a modality for pain control, there has been very little documented in the literature regarding complications resulting from this reflexology technique. This paper presents the case of a female patient who experienced severe pain in her right arm and paresthesia in her right thumb after electro ...
Gerard L. Lapeer, Trilok N. Monga
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Acupuncture & Electro-Therapeutics Research, 1983
Studies of referred pain aid the assessment and treatment of many puzzling conditions--once the source of the pain or distress can be located and its segmental innervation is known. Furthermore as this survey suggests, these studies tend to confirm many traditional Chinese medical observations--particularly when a beneficial effect occurs following an ...
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Studies of referred pain aid the assessment and treatment of many puzzling conditions--once the source of the pain or distress can be located and its segmental innervation is known. Furthermore as this survey suggests, these studies tend to confirm many traditional Chinese medical observations--particularly when a beneficial effect occurs following an ...
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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.
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Acupuncture Therapy in Acute Abdomen
The American Journal of Chinese Medicine, 1985Acupuncture as a therepeutic measure for abdominal pain was early recorded in Huangdi Neijing ("Yellow Emperor's Canon or Medicine''). Fruitful experiments have been accumulated in the practice of the long historical years. Nowadays acupuncture therapy has become one of the main therapeutic methods in surgical acute abdomen and is widely used ...
Xianli Zheng, Xianzhong Wu, Chang Chen
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Effects of acupuncture therapy on insomnia
Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2003Background. Acupuncture therapy, commonly used in clinical practice in oriental cultures, has the potential to produce a positive effect with patients experiencing insomnia.Aim. The purposes of this systematic review were: (1) to assess the trends across intervention studies using acupuncture for insomnia from 1975 to 2002, (2) to examine dependent ...
Kwuy Bun Kim +2 more
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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
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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.
Qiang Wang, Xin Li
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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, Ying Xia, Jieshi Cheng
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