Tag: Acupuncture and HRV
Clinical Case Intractable Migraine and HRV
This data is from a young patient with intractable daily migraines for 1 1/2 years. She has tried any and all treatments. Drugs from betablockers, to anti-Alzheimer, to anti-depressants, to tryptans. Chiropractic, acupuncture… Everything. She came in for consulation and treatment and in the end decided to continue with what she was doing rather than…
Read MoreMoxibustion for Hypertension Shows Results
This study found that moxibustion applied 3 times/week decreased diastolic blood pressure and to a lesser extent systolic blood pressure after four weeks of treatment. They found no change in patients’ HRV over time however. In my study Does Acupuncture Reduce Stress Proof and in a UCLA study , blood pressure decreased with acupuncture and…
Read MoreStress Reduction Over Time: Hypertension Te.Ca. edition
Here is another data set looking at long term stress reduction/improvement in HRV over time. from a patient who has been treated for 2 years for hypertension and anxiety. Her blood pressure is controlled without medication and the anxiety very rarely occurs. I would love to be able to show this consistently. But, of course,…
Read MoreStress Reduction Over Time: Lu.Wi. Edition
This is another set of data from a healthy patient in his mid thirties who has issues with allergies, anxiety, insomnia. This is his data for the first year of treatment. Again we see an increase over time.
Read MoreImprovement in HRV, Autonomic Balance Over Time? Vi.Le edition RMSSD
This data is from a patient we’ve looked at before. One overriding goal of this HRV project (looking at stress levels and autonomic balance in conjunction with acupuncture) is to explore and document stress levels over time with consistent treatment. Of course correlation doesn’t mean causation, but it is something that is of tremendous interest…
Read MoreTAVNS Transcutaneous Auricular Vagal Nerve Stimulation and HRV: Clinic data Ly.Ma edition
My ongoing work to use HRV (heart rate variability) to document improved autonomic activity (stress levels) has as one of its foci the use of TAVNS and if there appears to be improved stress levels with its use. Even though there are studies showing that TAVNS activated autonomic centers in the brain, I have not…
Read MoreHeart Rate Variability in Fibromyalgia Patients
I have treated fibromyalgia patients over the years, and the condition is of intense interest in the Acupuncture Research Community. This article indicates that autonomic dysfunction plays a part in the disease. Front Physiol. 2018 Aug 17;9:1118. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2018.01118. eCollection 2018. Multifractal Analysis Reveals Decreased Non-linearity and Stronger Anticorrelations in Heart Period Fluctuations of Fibromyalgia…
Read MoreStress Response as Sign of Aging
I’m rereading this blog post by “friend-of-blog” Zach Haigney. He is reviewing and discussing a Science Direct article from 2013 that seeks to establish biomarkers for cellular stress response and what they can tell us about the aging process. A key sentence in this article is the following ““A crucial component of the homeodynamic space…
Read MorePolyvagal Theory and Auricular Acupuncture
Polyvagal theory Oleson Medical Acupuncture This is from a recent issue of Medical Acupuncture and discusses the importance of the vagus nerve in auricular acupuncture. My research, such as it is, is focussed on the stress response and the role of the autonomic nervous system in acupuncture . Until recently, both Western medicine and traditional…
Read MoreHRV Stress Levels in Migraine:Sa.Be edition
This data is from a patient we’ve discussed before. She was a profound responder with almost immediate resolution of her headaches with acupuncture. This is her summarized Sympathetic Activity or Flight/Fight activity during acupuncture minutes 6 to 12. This prolonged decrease in sympathetic activity over time is one of the things I find so compelling…
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