Electroacupuncture and HRV in Fibromyalgia Patients
This article challenges many of my hypotheses and assumptions. What they found when measuring HRV in the morning on 22 fibromyalgia patients after receiving weeks...
Heart Rate Variability as Biomarker of Prevention and Resilience in the Acupuncture Clinic: A Year Long Study of Migraine Patients
I’m considering this post “self publishing” of a recent write up I did for Journal of Medical Acupuncture. They declined it on the basis that...
Current Directions in the Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation II – An Engineering Perspective
Ancient Medicine Made Modern: Scientific Solutions, Remarkable Results I’ve made the first pass through of this informative paper. It discusses the current state of the...
Heart-rate variability indices as predictors of the response to vagus nerve stimulation in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy.
Ancient Medicine Made Modern: Scientific Solutions, Remarkable Results I came across this article while reading a recent review of the engineering behind auricular vagal nerve...
Effectiveness of Laser Acupuncture in Alleviating Chronic Insomnia: A Single-Blinded Randomized Controlled Trial
Ancient Medicine Made Modern: Scientific Solutions for Remarkable Results This article is right up my alley. Using Low Laser Light Therapy, they are able...
HRV in Patients with TCM Spleen Deficiency Syndrome
Ancient Medicine Made Modern: Your Path to Resiliency and Long Life Studies that aim to evaluate different TCM syndromes with biomarkers are pretty rare. In...
Time effect for in-situ dry needling on the autonomic nervous system, a pilot study.
This study does NOT confirm what I find in patients in their HRV. I see an increase in sympathetic activity with needling and then often...
Islet-cell autoantigen 69 mediates the antihyperalgesic effects of electroacupuncture on inflammatory pain by regulating spinal glutamate receptor subunit 2 phosphorylation through protein interacting with C-kinase 1 in mice.
Inflammation research is everywhere. Since inflammation is now linked to even cancer and heart disease, inflammatory pain studies are ever more salient. Pain. 2019 Mar;160(3):712-723....