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Pneumothorax Secondary to Acupuncture Therapy [PDF]

open access: possibleSouthern 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]

open access: possibleChinese 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.
Bing Zhu   +4 more
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Pain Secondary to Acupuncture Therapy

CRANIO®, 1988
AbstractAlthough 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 Medical Therapy and its Underlying Mechanisms: A Systematic Review.

The American Journal of Chinese Medicine, 2020
As a traditional Chinese alternative health care approach, acupuncture is gaining increasing attention and reputation in China and overseas. While becoming increasingly popular globally, some consumers and professionals still know little about the ...
Jingyi Wen   +8 more
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SEGMENTAL ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY

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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Acupuncture for infertility: Is it an effective therapy?

Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine, 2011
Acupuncture 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.
Greb Robert   +5 more
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Acupuncture Therapy in Acute Abdomen

The American Journal of Chinese Medicine, 1985
Acupuncture 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, 2003
Background.  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, 2002
Persistent 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
Yaron River   +3 more
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Acupuncture therapy for tennis elbow

Pain, 1983
Acupuncture 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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