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MIGRAINES – ACUPUNCTURE BENEFICIAL STUDIES SHOW
The government funded, prestigious, Cochrane review has found that there is consistent evidence that acupuncture is beneficial in the treatment of acute migraine attacks and as a preventative treatment, with better results and fewer adverse effects than drug treatment. Two recent studies showed that drug therapy had little benefit. Acupuncture was used with 3 different classical acupuncture systems of point selection and one series of non acupuncture points. All had approx 10 needle insertions and all the needles of all 4 selections were connected to electro current stimulation. All 4 types of acupuncture got significant results for acupuncture with the non acupuncture point selection getting slightly less results than the 3 classically selected points. An international team of researchers, including Dr. Fan-rong Liang at Chengdu University in China, found that between 50 percent and 75 percent of those with migraines felt better after acupuncture, after 16 weeks. Another study found an intervention promoting prevantitive drug treatment failed to reduce migraine sufferers' attack frequency or severity, a randomized study indicated, while a separate trial of acupuncture found that it was significantly beneficial. The monthly control baseline average number of migraine attacks was about six. After acupuncture treatments migraine attack counts fell to about two during the final four weeks of the study in the classical acupuncture groups and to about three with the non classical treatment. The same pattern was seen for migraine and pain intensities. In an accompanying editorial, Albrecht Molsberger, MD, of Ruhr University Bochum in Germany, said “Acupuncture should be an option for the first-line treatment of migraine along with other non drug treatment options." ANDY MURRAY HAS ACUPUNCTURE FOR PAINFUL GROIN STRAIN
“Theres things you do anytime you have injuries to help it, like having Acupuncture, that help and make it feel better".ANDY MURRAY at Barclays ATPWorld Tour Tennis discussing a groin strain that is effecting his game. With Acupuncture "Now I can eat out without fear," says Debby Pohlson as reported in LA Times. Pohlson's quality of life has improved tremendously.
For most of her life, Pohlson has suffered from irritable bowel syndrome, a condition that causes painful abdominal cramping along with constipation and diarrhea. Conventional medicine hadn't helped, so when Grinnell Hospital started an outpatient facility for acupuncture treatments she decided to give it a try. It took a few months of weekly hour long treatments to see results, but gradually her painful, unpredictable symptoms abated. Now Pohlson, who is on the hospital's board of trustees, returns every three or four weeks to have small needles placed around her navel, below her knees, at the back of her head and elsewhere. Except for occasional flare-ups, her condition is now under control. Pohlson's quality of life has improved tremendously. BRAIN SCANS (fMRI) PROVE ACUPUNCTURE EFFECTS.
A new study published in the Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging shows the neurophysiological effects of acupuncture using MRI technology. The researchers conclude that, “The current study demonstrates that acupuncture at different acupoints could exert different modulatory effects on RSNs. Our findings help to understand the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying acupuncture specificity.”The ability to explore the centrally mediated effects of acupuncture using functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) brain imaging techniques takes advantage of an opportunity that Chinese doctors from the past could never have imagined. The fundamental physical processes that we are only now beginning to observe in medical research laboratories. The availability of the technology developed for brain imaging in the neurosciences (Cho et al., 1976; Cho et al., 2002; Toga and Mazziotta, 2000) will resolve the scientific proof of Acupuncture. Acupuncture helps cure chronic stress. Washington: Acupuncture has been found to significantly reduce levels of a protein linked to chronic stress. researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) say the findings could help explain why many users of the therapy report health benefits.
The researchers say that acupuncture could offer a proven therapy for stress, which is difficult to treat. “It has long been thought that acupuncture can reduce stress, but this is the first study to show molecular proof of this benefit,” said the study’s lead author, Ladan Eshkevari, Ph.D., an assistant professor at Georgetown’s School of Nursing and Health Studies, a part of GUMC. ACUPUNCTURE IN HOSPITALS. According to a recent survey by the American Hospital Association 42 percent of the 714 hospitals that responded offered ACUPUNCTURE therapy in 2010, a significant jump from just five years earlier, when 27 percent of hospitals offered such treatments.
Battlefield Acupuncture treatment is being taught to many special operations soldiers in Afghanistan.
Capt. Elsa Karman, a 7th Sustainment Brigade battle captain, walked into the medical clinic in Afghanistan for treatment of chronic back and neck pain with Ear Acupuncture one of the newest treatment techniques being used by the military. A medical professional Lt. Col. Betty Garner, the Joint Combat Casualty Research Team deputy director and trained acupuncturist, visited the Special Troops Battalion, Task Force Resolute, medical clinic on Kandahar Airfield to conduct battlefield acupuncture for soldiers, Oct. 22. The process of battlefield acupuncture was developed by Dr. Richard Niemtzow, a former Air Force medical practitioner, and is named for its ability to be performed with military helmets still on the patient. The technique is most commonly used to treat pain, but can also result in reduction in anxiety, stress and better sleep, said Lt. Col. Garner. “Battlefield acupuncture treatment is being taught to many special operations soldiers for its applications in combat and its ability to reduce pain immediately.”“While the treatment was being administered there were a few moments where I felt the pin prick of the needles going in,” said Lt. Col. Douglas Maurer, the Task Force Resolute surgeon, who got the treatment to help with pain in his left calf muscle. “I felt less pain in my leg and a feeling of euphoria immediately after the procedure was finished. ”Acupuncture pain management is desirable as a treatment as it can eliminate some of the need for pain medication. Battlefield Acupuncture can reduce pain with the same intensity as some narcotic drugs without the after effects. The procedure can also be administered quickly in combat situations. “Many soldiers don’t want to take pills for their pain anymore and the side effects of medication could take them out of the fight,” said Lt. Col. Garner. “Acupuncture is as effective as many on the prescription pain pills. ” Lt. Col. Garner will return periodically to the Resolute clinic treat new patients with Acupuncture. “I had a headache all the way up until the point Doctor Garner treated me with battlefield acupuncture, and now the headache is gone,” said Capt.Karman. “I am going to go back as often as I can to get this done.” EAR (AURICULAR) ACUPUNCTURE
The Pain Management Unit at the Institut Gustave Roussy, a large comprehensive cancer center in Villejuif, France a well-designed study of cancer patients with chronic pain, a randomized, controlled trial concluded, that pain intensity decreased by 36% after two months in those who received auriculo(ear)acupuncture and changed little for those who had placebo treatments. The study's authors also searched the medical literature and found three other randomized trials reported as positive for auriculo (ear) Acupuncture. |