Clinical Case Study: Stress Reduction An.Ma
This data is to illustrate a patient’s overall stress reduction over time. This patient is 50+ and comes in for cosmetic acupuncture in addition to routine treatments for “maintenance.” Her treatments only vary slightly from session to session since the bulk of the needling is cosmetic. Her other ongoing issues are allergies, sleeping, and stress….
Read MoreAcupuncture for Vertigo, Autonomics and HRV: Sh.Ga
This data is from a new patient who has intractable vertigo. Patients with vertigo tend to have higher stress levels in general, and if that improves it may help since treating vertigo can be challenging. She is a 70+ woman who appears younger than her stated age and is otherwise healthy except for this problem….
Read MoreIrritable Bowel, Fatigue Clinical Case with HRV:Ma.Bo
This patient is a young woman who we have discussed before, here . I wanted to share her most recent data and illustrate a few points. I like to look at stress levels with HRV, but HRV can be analyzed in a few different ways. What I have found, is that overall variability as measured by…
Read MorePublished. Article on Movement Disorders and Vagal Tone
Here is a link to the article coming out in February. Unfortunately, it’s behind a paywall. It will appear in Alternative and Complementary Therapies. The article looks at stress response and vagal tone in two patients with movement disorders. One patient has cervical dystonia, and the other has intentions tremor. Acupuncture and Vagal Tone: Cervical…
Read MoreClinical Case: Allergies, GI and HRV De.Bo edition
I have been treating this patient for years. Her main issues have been allergies, fatigue, and gastrointestinal. She has found that the estim device has been quite helpful and she ended up buying a unit from me and I fashioned a custom made ear electrode for her. In this observational study, she seems to…
Read MoreClinical Case: Cosmetic Acupuncture, Migraine and HRV Mi.Do.
This is another case looking at stress reduction with cosmetic acupuncture, similar to this one. This patient also had migraines and lesser headaches which have also improved significantly. We can see the over stress levels, LF/HF tending to decrease. But parasympathetic (rest and digest autonomic activity) increase, and sympathetic activity (fright or flight) decrease over…
Read MoreClinical Case: Migraine and HRV El.Ma. Exception Makes the Rule?
This has been a gratifying case from the standpoint of clinical results. Quick decisive elimination of her migraines. She did have a migraine related to the flu within the last two weeks, but that was a rare exception. Her pharmacy called her withing a few months of her starting acupuncture to ask why she hadn’t…
Read MoreClinical Case: Migraine and HRV Sa.Be
This is data from this patient, who we discussed a few months ago. She has continued to migraine free. She occasionally has a headache, but they’re mild and not disabling. It’s interesting to me that her LFnorm, or sympathetic activity has had such a pronounced decrease over time.
Read MoreCase Study: Stress and Cosmetic Ch.Ma edition
These graphs are from a patient I’ve been seeing since the summer for cosmetic acupuncture and stress reduction. She enjoys her treatments and looks forward to the relaxation they provide. Notice how even though there are some “bumps” in her data during treatment, over time we see a consistent and convincing decrease in her stress…
Read MoreClinical Cases: TVNS only Ma.Mi, Te. Ca
These data sets are in two patients who showed some improvement in their autonomic balance with estim, or Transcutaneous Vagal Nerve Stimulation (TVNS) as shown by HRV. I wanted to see what their data would look like without the needling, just estim. In both cases, they showed improved autonomic balance with lowered sympathetic activity and…
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