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The publication of a new guideline for chronic pain treatment by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is a major advance for the recognition of acupuncture as a legitimate clinically effective treatment in the UK ...

Acupuncture may be a useful adjunct to pharmacological pain management after total hip (THR) or total knee replacement (TKR) surgery ...

  Authors Cardoso T., Mendez C. M., Jimenez I. Introduction Peripheral Facial Nerve Palsy is an inflammatory neuropathy. Patients can have a viral prodrome. Although it is not universally accepted, some authors consider that idiopathic facial nerve palsy is a polyneuropathy, with slight findings referable to the trigeminal, glossopharyngeal, and vagus nerves, and the second cervical nerve in ...

Author Cardoso T. MD, Mendez C. M. MD, Jimenez I. Centro Internacional de Restauracion Neurologica. Introduction The spinal cord injuries (SCI) and their consequences are the most important causes of disabilities and have a negative impact in the quality life. In 1944, with the creation of a multidisciplinary treatment center for SCI at Stoke-Mandeville by Sir Ludwig Guttman, a new vision started ...

Review of clinical studies 1. Quantitative evaluation of spermatozoa ultrastructure after acupuncture treatment for idiopathic male infertility Twenty eight German men with idiopathic oligospermia (too few sperm), asthenospermia (poor motility) or teratozoospermia (poor morphology) received acupuncture twice a week for five weeks and were then compared to 12 men in the untreated control group. The ...

Author M.M. Van Benschoten19231 Victory Blvd. Suite 151Reseda CA 91335 Abstract Mr. A, a 30 year old graduate student, was diagnosed with aplastic anemia on 11/16/94. Treatments with antithymocyte globulin, cyclosporin, prednisone, TCM formulas, and qigong therapy all failed to reduce need for transfusions. Acupoint diagnostic tests revealed multiple pathogens damaging bone marrow function, inclu ...

A response to a study debunking acupuncture for back pain ... 

Headache is the prestigious peer-reviewed journal of the American Headache Society. When they publish an article on headache and acupuncture, we would expect an informed, well-referenced piece. Read what Mel Hopper Koppelman has to say below and ...

Edzard Ernst's latest paper on acupuncture continues his endeavours to demonstrate that acupuncture is both more harmful and less effective than is claimed.