Tag: acupuncture and pain
Cluster Headaches: Acupuncture Case History
This is the case study of a patient with cluster headaches. When he came in to see me, he was still suffering from daily chronic headaches, but not the severe cluster type. He had excellent results with Acupuncture and his headaches diminished in intensity. He also tried some other treatment modalities at the same…
Read MoreCluster Headache Acupuncture Strategies
Kinda great that this made it into the British Medical Journal. This article shows the merit of understanding the physiology behind clinical conditions. BMJ Case Rep. 2015 Sep 10;2015. Acupuncture for episodic cluster headache: a trigeminal approach. Hayhoe S1 1Department of Pain Management, Colchester University Hospital, Colchester, UK. Abstract Following evidence that acupuncture is…
Read MoreAcupuncture Dosage and Pain
This is background for an article from Acupuncture Today rebutting a negative acupuncture study from Australia on Knee Acupuncture. The article is not yet available online. PLoS One. 2013; 8(10): e77438. Published online 2013 Oct 11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077438 PMCID: PMC3795671 Characteristics of Acupuncture Treatment Associated with Outcome: An Individual Patient Meta-Analysis of 17,922 Patients…
Read MoreAcupuncture Mechanisms: Habituation
I love this study. It is suggesting a novel, and reasonable model for acupuncture’s effectiveness over time. Habituation is a topic I know nothing about, indeed, never really thought about except in regards to opiates. This study lays out a working hypothesis using fMRI showing that acupuncture meets the criteria for habituation, and might…
Read MoreAuricular Stimulation for Pelvic Pain Control
Friend of blog, Vitaly Napadow, has an interesting study looking at ear stimulation for pelvic pain. His group used transcutaneous-vagus nerve stimulation (t-VNS) synchronized with the exhalation phase of respiration to study the response to chronic pelvic pain. They compared this synchronized auricular stim to non-vagal auricular stim. This is a patient population characterized by…
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