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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 related cardiac injury [PDF]
Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine, 2013 Cardiac injury is the most serious adverse event in acupuncture therapy. The causes include needling chest points near the heart, the cardiac enlargement and pericardial effusion that will enlarge the projected area on the body surface and make the proper depth of needling shorter, and the incorrect needling method of the points. Therefore, acupuncture
Xian Wang, Xue-feng Li, Xue-feng Li
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[Acupuncture in headache therapy].
Schmerz (Berlin, Germany), 1996Acupuncture is now being increasingly used in the treatment of headache. Acupuncture is a technique originating in Asia, from countries that have a cultural background with a fundamentally different concept of disease and therapy. Up to now, sustained application of acupuncture in Western medicine has been impeded by the lack of a scientifically ...
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Archives of Surgery, 1975
Between 1949 and 1971, we lost communication with the scientific world of the Peoples' Republic of China. In this period, the field of medicine flourished as a merger of the existing traditional medicine and Western medicine, with a great deal of exciting experimentation documented in the major scientific centers of Nanking, Shanghai, and Peking ...
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Between 1949 and 1971, we lost communication with the scientific world of the Peoples' Republic of China. In this period, the field of medicine flourished as a merger of the existing traditional medicine and Western medicine, with a great deal of exciting experimentation documented in the major scientific centers of Nanking, Shanghai, and Peking ...
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Acupuncture therapy for rheumatoid arthritis
APLAR Journal of Rheumatology, 2004AbstractThe current literature on the effects of acupuncture treatment on patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is reviewed. The MEDLINE and Biological Abstracts databases were searched. Studies in which different substances were injected into acupuncture point location were excluded. Improvement of clinical symptoms has been observed in nine studies.
Tal Zan-Bar +3 more
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Acupuncture, electrostimulation, and reflex therapy in dermatology
Dermatologic Therapy, 2003Acupuncture is an old therapeutic method that includes both needle and nonneedle acupuncture. Nonneedle acupuncture includes moxibustion, cupping, and acupressure. In the field of dermatology, acupuncture has been reported to be beneficial for the treatment of acne, postherpetic neuralgia, psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, and urticaria.
Chung-Jen Chen, Hsin-Su Yu
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Acupuncture Therapy for Neurological Diseases
Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies, 2010Acupuncture therapy for neurological diseases , Acupuncture therapy for neurological diseases , کتابخانه دیجیتالی دانشگاه علوم پزشکی و خدمات درمانی شهید ...
Jieshi Cheng +3 more
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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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Somatoautonomic reflexes in acupuncture therapy: A review
Autonomic Neuroscience, 2017Oriental therapies such as acupuncture, moxibustion, or Anma, have been used to treat visceral disorders since ancient times. In each of these therapies, stimulation of the skin or underlying muscles leads to excitation of afferent nerves. The sensory information is carried to the central nervous system, where it is transferred to autonomic efferents ...
Sae Uchida +2 more
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2017
This chapter describes the final steps for a successful clinical intervention using acupuncture. They include the creation of a healing environment, discussion of the benefits and expectations of treatment outcome, patient commitment, obtaining informed consent from patients, preparations and precautions to avoid the side effects of acupuncture, proper
Jingduan Yang, Daniel A. Monti
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This chapter describes the final steps for a successful clinical intervention using acupuncture. They include the creation of a healing environment, discussion of the benefits and expectations of treatment outcome, patient commitment, obtaining informed consent from patients, preparations and precautions to avoid the side effects of acupuncture, proper
Jingduan Yang, Daniel A. Monti
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