Acupuncture reduces urine leakage in women with stress urinary incontinence
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Acupuncture as effective as analgesics in emergency department patients
The world’s largest randomised controlled trial of acupuncture in emergency departments (EDs) has found that acupuncture treatment is safe, acceptable and has an analgesic effect comparable with that of pharmacotherapy. Among 2,000 patients presenting to EDs...
Lees meerAmerican College of Physicians recommends non-drug therapies such as acupuncture for low back pain
The American College of Physicians (ACP) recommends in an evidence-based clinical practice guideline published Annals of Internal Medicine that physicians and patients should treat acute or subacute low back pain with non-drug therapies such as...
Lees meerAcupuncture helps to glean new insights for biomedical research
Leading acupuncture researchers in the world identified at least 5 areas where research into acupuncture has helped to glean new insights for biomedical research: Research into acupuncture analgesia has expanded into neuroimaging research, broadening physiologic understanding...
Lees meerAcupuncture reduces hot flashes for menopausal women
The frequency of hot flashes can be reduced by almost half for about 50% of women over 8 weeks of acupuncture treatment, according to scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center who conducted the US government...
Lees meerAcupuncture reduces chronic fatigue
A study in Korea found Chinese acupuncture reduces chronic fatigue. Patients and treatments: A randomized controlled trial was performed in four Korean hospitals to evaluate the effectiveness of traditional Chinese acupuncture and traditional Korean acupuncture plus usual...
Lees meerCupping reduces shoulder and neck pain
Wet cupping therapy (WCT) is a traditional complementary method recommended to decrease the symptoms of a lot of diseases and used in the treatment of pain syndromes. In this pilot study, the possible effects of...
Lees meerCupping therapy relieves chronic neck and shoulder pain
The research aimed to investigate the effectiveness of cupping therapy for relieving chronic neck and shoulder pain among community residents. A single-blind experimental design constituted of 60 subjects with self-perceived neck and shoulder pain. The subjects were...
Lees meerAcupuncture relieves menopausal hot flashes and improves quality of life
A just published research results in the US again demonstrates the effectiveness of acupuncture in relieving menopausal hot flashes and improves quality of life in perimenopausal and postmenopausal women. Below is the abstract of the research...
Lees meerAcupuncture plus SSRIs are more efective than SSRIs alone for depression
Objectives: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of combined selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and electroacupuncture therapies for the early treatment of primary depression. Methods: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) were analyzed to compare therapy combining...
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