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Breast Cancer Research, 2023 Background Insomnia is a highly prevalent symptom occurred during and post-chemotherapy. Acupuncture may have beneficial effects in the management of chemotherapy-associated insomnia.
Jialing Zhang +13 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 Background and objective Whilst acupuncture is widely used for treating psychosomatic diseases, there is little high-quality evidence supporting its application in comorbid perimenopausal depression (PMD) and insomnia (PMI) which are common complaints ...
Fei-Yi Zhao +9 more
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A systematic review of sham acupuncture validation studies. [PDF]
BMC Complement Med TherAbstract Background Acupuncture is widely used worldwide; however, studies on its effectiveness have been impeded by limitations regarding the design of appropriate control groups. In clinical research, noninvasive sham acupuncture techniques can only be applied through validation studies.
Lim SM, Go E.
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Acupuncture versus Sham Acupuncture for Chronic Prostatitis/Chronic Pelvic Pain [PDF]
The American Journal of Medicine, 2008 Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) afflicts 2%-10% of adult men. Available therapies offer little or no proven benefit. Because acupuncture represents an attractive "natural" therapy, we compared the efficacy of acupuncture to sham acupuncture for CP/CPPS.Participants met US National Institutes of Health (NIH) consensus criteria
Lee, S +11 more
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Brain structural properties predict psychologically mediated hypoalgesia in an 8‐week sham acupuncture treatment for migraine [PDF]
Human Brain Mapping, 2017 Jixin Liu +5 more
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Are Sham Acupuncture Interventions More Effective than (Other) Placebos? A Re-Analysis of Data from the Cochrane Review on Placebo Effects [PDF]
, 2010 Background and Objective: A recent Cochrane review on placebo interventions for all kinds of conditions found that `physical placebos' (which included sham acupuncture) were associated with larger effects over no-treatment control groups than ...
Linde, Klaus +2 more
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Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2013 See related research article by Xu and colleagues on page [473][1] and at [www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.121108][2] “For patients with Bell palsy treated with prednisone, the addition of strong-stimulation acupuncture, which can elicit a higher intensity of de qi , significantly ...
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Acupuncture in Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis (ACUSAR) - Design and Protocol of a Randomised Controlled Multi-Centre Trial [PDF]
, 2010 Background: We report on the study design and protocol of a randomised controlled trial (Acupuncture in Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis, ACUSAR) that investigates the efficacy of acupuncture in the treatment of seasonal allergic rhinitis (SAR).
Brinkhaus, Benno +11 more
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British medical journal, 2020 Objective To assess the efficacy of manual acupuncture as prophylactic treatment for acupuncture naive patients with episodic migraine without aura. Design Multicentre, randomised, controlled clinical trial with blinded participants, outcome assessment ...
Shabei Xu +13 more
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A Retrospective Cohort Study Comparing Stroke Recurrence Rate in Ischemic Stroke Patients With and Without Acupuncture Treatment. [PDF]
, 2015 Little was known about the effects of acupuncture on stroke recurrence. The aim of this study is to investigate whether ischemic stroke patients receiving acupuncture treatment have a decreased risk of stroke recurrence.
Hsu, Chung Y +8 more
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