Tag: acupuncture and pain
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. 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. Han K1,…
Read MoreTiger Woods Won the Back Surgery Lottery
That is the actual title of this very important discussion of spinal fusion surgery. Go the acupuncture route. Safer, cheaper, no opioids involved. Reading through this article, I want to copy almost the entire thing. This is information that is crucial and to call it “under-reported” is the understatement of the decade. An outcome like…
Read MoreAcupuncture for Rheumatoid Arthritis of the Hand
This article shows that verum manual acupuncture improves pain, swelling and quality of life in rheumatoid arthritis patients. Control acupuncture points do not have the same effect, and the control group without treatment got worse. Effectiveness of Acupuncture on Pain, Functional Disability, and Quality of Life in Rheumatoid Arthritis of the Hand: Results of a…
Read MoreAcupuncture, Stress Levels and Chronic Intractable Migraine: Af.Es. editioin
This data is from a relatively new patient who has severe, chronic migraine. He is on multiple medications. He takes daily medications, anti-anxiety medications, and tryptans for attacks. The first priority is to try to stabilize his system with acupuncture and avoiding tryptans whenever possible. He is unable to work, so the disability he is…
Read MoreBrain Scans Show Real Effect of Acupuncture
A report from The Guardian discussing recent findings showing that acupuncture works in a way distinct from any placebo. “Placebo acupuncture can ease short-term pain but the real thing might help to reverse the underlying pathology of a disease.” ” “I was completely floored,” he says. Whatever the acupuncture was doing, it wasn’t working as…
Read MoreEvoked Pressure Pain Sensitivity Is Associated with Differential Analgesic Response to Verum and Sham Acupuncture in Fibromyalgia
This is an important observation and conclusion, that not all patients are alike in their response to needling. Some patients prefer, if not require light needling. I did a poster presentation on this very topic in Stockholm. The more general take away, is that there is definitely a role for “precision medicine” in acupuncture; better…
Read MoreMigraine and Sensory Hypersensitivity
References for the sensory hypersensitivity and physiology thereof in migraineurs. Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2014 Nov;18(11):458. doi: 10.1007/s11916-014-0458-8. Migraine is associated with altered processing of sensory stimuli. Harriott AM1, Schwedt TJ. Author information Abstract Migraine is associated with derangements in perception of multiple sensory modalities including vision, hearing, smell, and somatosensation. Compared to people without…
Read MoreElectroacupuncture at Ipsilateral or Contralateral ST36-ST37 Acupoints on Inflammatory Pain.
Patients often wonder why I treat both sides (Right and Left) in musculoskeletal conditions. This has long been a trick in Chinese Medicine, particularly if the inflamed joint is very sensitive, or in a cast and it often works great. The study below shows, perhaps, why. It’s overall reduction in inflammatory activity. Sci Rep. 2016…
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 MorefMRI and Effective Migraine Acupuncture Treatment
In this study, they gave intensive treatment. Daily acupuncture for 5 days, 2 days off for 4 weeks. I was surprised that their results were not better. They also used three different treatment protocols, two relied heavily on gall bladder points, one with St 37 and Pianli. In sum, quite different protocols than what I…
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