In a study designed to test the effectiveness of acupuncture for treating migraine, 142 subjects were treated with acupuncture and 80 subjects were given a sham treatment. The numbers of migraine attacks for the acupuncture treatment group had a mean of 1.8 and a standard deviation of 1.4. The numbers of migraine attacks for the sham treatment group had a mean of 1.6 and a standard deviation of 1.2.…
Acupuncture is used for a large range of conditions and some individuals combine acupuncture with their treatment. Acupuncture has a range of advantages and is usually treated for common conditions such as:…
Whether you are experiencing a chronic pain condition or discomfort after an accident or injury, finding natural ways to improve your discomfort is safer than taking prescription medications that have so many side effects. Thankfully, acupuncture by a licensed professional can ease tense muscles, arthritic joints, and underlying…
The scientific mechanisms of acupuncture have puzzled the Western biomedical community for years and Kathy Sykes, a physicist from the University of Bristol, is by no means an exception. In the BBC Documentary The Science of Acupuncture, Sykes attempts to explain acupuncture from a skeptical scientist’s point of view and concludes that acupuncture is effective for treating certain kinds of pain. However, her research provides neither reliable nor concrete evidence on the efficacy of acupuncture for the audience. The general audience may find the documentary interesting as it relies on various techniques…
National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health (2013, August 6). Acupuncture (PDQ). Retrieved from…
Acupuncture would be very beneficial to a patient with RA, for pain relief. This Ancient Chinese Tradition that has become a commonly utilized CAM treatment within the past twenty years, in the U.S., due to the fact that in 1996 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved acupuncture needles as an official medical devise (Roberts, D. 2003) The treatment involves placing small needles at trigger points on the body at a specific depth with the use of vibration to help stimulate nerves and remove any…
Acupuncture- Is a collection of procedures that involve stimulating points of the body. Some of the techniques used are penetrating the skin with small thin needles; this is one of the traditional Chinese methods. According to the traditional Chinese methods, stimulating the acupuncture points helps to correct imbalances in the flow. It has also been used to reduce depression, anxiety and sleep disturbances.…
Acupuncture is a well-endowed and central technique of Traditional-Chinese Medicine. But why does it work? Through stimulating acupuncture points with needles, acupuncturists can boost body functions and give a sense of well-being. Many people may doubt the legitimacy of acupuncture but consider this. If acupuncture did not work it would have been forgotten ages ago considering that it was used hundreds of years before the common era. But it is still widely practiced today improving people's health and lives.…
The most physically painful event I have endured was when I was hit in the face by a metal bat. This event occured when I was about eight years old. My older brothers and my neighbors always would play together, however they would never let me play with them. In one instance, they were playing baseball with my neighbor’s new metal bat. I was disregarding what everyone was saying and while they were playing I tried to run across the yard they were playing at. I did not realize how close I ran near my neighbor who was about to hit the baseball and he hit me in the face. I was knocked unconscious for some time and when I woke up on my bed with my brother’s trying to comfort me. I felt the throbbing pain radiating around my head. It felt painful to even blinking because I was hit near my temporal bone.I was rushed to the hospital and given medications to subside the pain. Therefore, I only felt the pain for less than two hours. However, when I was released from the hospital I still felt a continual pain for about a week. Therefore, the pain lasted about a week in total. When I regain consciousness after getting hit, my oldest brother immediately placed ice on my face, which helped to relieve…
Neuropathic occurs with damage to nerve fibers or lesions inside the sensory system. Neuropathic is regularly connected with constant infections (disease, diabetes, post-herpetic disorder), traumatic injury of the sensory system, or chronic injuries, (for example, ulcers). Regular cases of perpetual pain incorporate cerebral pains, low back torment, fringe neuropathy, and ligament torment.…
In the United States, there are more than 100 million people suffering from some sort of chronic pain. With the most common treatment is being prescribed medications such as a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory, or opioids (Boyles, 2011). Treating chronic pain with opioids can be affective. But the long term use presents many problems. Especially with treating a substance abuser of prescription or nonprescription opioid drugs. Patients that are prone so substance abuse, current substance abusers, and health care providers of the patients need to consider and promote alternative treatment for pain management (Compton, 2011).…
Barbarisi et al. (2010, p. 571) completed a research study investigating the effectiveness of a transcutaneous nerve stimulator (TENS) a non-pharmacologic analgesic method that stimulates the spinal endogenous opioids receptors, which in turn reduces neuropathic pain. The combination of TENS and Pregabalin (a pain medication approve for PHN) shows a 40% reduction of PHN pain. Therefore, the treatment approach for PHN pain is more efficient in a multidisciplinary approach. In addition to pain management, encouragement, and positive re-enforcement is needed to increase the patient’s activity participation and exercise tolerance. Furthermore, complementary alternative therapy as illustrated by Irwin, Olmstead, and Oxman (2007, p. 516), conducted a random controlled trial on the effectiveness of Tai Chi on cellular mediated immunity (CMI) to VZV and health performing in older adults. The study has two arms of research, the tai-chi group, and the health education group. The Tai-Chi group positively shown an increased in the CMI, increases the participants physical activity and decreases the sympathetic activity, therefore,…
Karst, M., Passie, T., Friedrich, S., Wiese, B., & Schneider, U. (2002). Acupuncture in the…
As such, eight articles detailing a variety of procedures for empirical research were thoroughly dissected. As Thompson, Osian, Jacobsen, and Johnstone (2015) stated, randomized controlled trials and patient-reported outcomes are the most efficient way to determine the effectiveness of acupuncture.…
Imagine waking up every morning immediately in pain. You don’t get the chance to develop a headache, eat something to make your stomach hurt, or step the wrong way and hurt your knee. You already experience it the second you open your eyes. This is the life of a person living with chronic pain. People don’t realize when someone is suffering from chronic pain because it’s a condition that doesn’t have visible characteristics.…