Acupuncture and menopause
Acupunct Med. 2011 Mar;29(1):27-31. The effect of acupuncture on postmenopausal symptoms and reproductive hormones: a sham controlled clinical trial. Acupuncture is commonly used to treat menopausal symptoms and other gynaecological conditions. In this study, the authors aimed to investigate whether acupuncture has an effect on menopausal symptoms and to explore whether this effect is related …
Acupuncture and headache
Neurological Science. 2011 May;32 Suppl 1:S15-8. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has two diagnostic frameworks for headaches: meridian diagnoses, based on the location of the pain and on the meridians (or channels) that pass through it; syndrome diagnoses, dependent on external or internal factors and on the characteristics of the pain. The four meridians involved in …
Acupuncture and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Phramongkutklao College of Medicine, Bangkok, Thailand. Dec 2010. Efficacy of acupuncture versus night splinting for carpal tunnel syndrome: a randomized clinical trial. OBJECTIVE: To compare the efficacy of acupuncture with night splinting for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). METHOD: Sixty one mild-to-moderate degree CTS patients, aged 27-67 were randomly assigned to acupuncture …
Acupuncture and chronic stress
Complement Ther Clin Pract. 2011 Feb;17(1):16-21. Epub 2010 Jun 19. An investigation into the effectiveness of traditional Chinese acupuncture (TCA) for chronic stress in adults: a randomised controlled pilot study. Abstract AIMS: The aim of this exploratory, pragmatic randomised controlled trial was to investigate the effectiveness of traditional Chinese acupuncture (TCA), using an individually targeted …
Acupuncture and IVF-ICSI
Fertility and Sterility Volume 85, Issue 5 , May 2006, Pages 1341-1346 Westergaard LG, et.al., set out to evaluate how the use of acupuncture effected pregnancy rates in patients treated with IVF/intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). 273 patients were randomly assigned to one of three groups: One group had acupuncture on the day of the transfer, …