Medical Acupuncture

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Assessing and Treating the Root Cause of Low Back Pain With Medical Acupuncture

Summary:
While an MRI provides definitive information about structural issues in the back, it is not necessary for treating low back pain with acupuncture.
Before conducting any orthopedic or neurological assessments, ask the patient questions about their urinary and bowel health. Low back pain can sometimes be indicative of a more serious condition: cauda equina syndrome.
If the patient has spasming pain, begin with Yao Tong Xue; for non-spasming pain, open the governing vessel: SI 3 and BL 62. Then proceed with BL 60 (bilateral), BL 40 (bilateral), BL 53 (bilateral), and BL 23 (bilateral).

Acupuncture treatment protocol can be used to treat low back pain, regardless of etiology and whether there is an MRI with or without confirmation of structural issues. Patients’ bodies tell us stories about what is causing the problem at hand; we must listen and assess appropriately to treat the root cause.

- Courtesy article of Acupuncture Today
Dustin Vaughan, DAOM, Dipl. OM, PMD, AP

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Electroacupuncture Alleviates Diabetic Neuropathic Pain and Downregulates p-PKC and TRPV1 in Dorsal Root Ganglions and Spinal Cord Dorsal Horn

Electroacupuncture Alleviates Diabetic Neuropathic Pain and Downregulates p-PKC and TRPV1 in Dorsal Root Ganglions and Spinal Cord Dorsal Horn Diabetic neuropathic pain (DNP) is a common complication of diabetes. Streptozotocin (STZ)-induced changes of protein in dorsal root ganglion (DRG) and spinal cord dorsal horn (SCDH) are critical for DNP genesis. However, which proteins change remains elusive. Here, the DNP model was established by....

Acupuncture for Migraines?

Systematic Review: Acupuncture vs Standard Pharmacological Therapy for Migraine Prevention

Background: Standard pharmacological treatment of migraine has many shortcomings. Acupuncture is becoming a more widely used therapy for the prevention and treatment of migraine, but its effectiveness is still in question when compared to the pharmacological treatments even though very few of these have Class A and B evidence for migraine prevention. This is a systematic review of data from existing randomized trials that compare the effectiveness of acupuncture treatment with conventional migraine preventative medications.

Methods: Custom-designed strategy was used for searching Pubmed (includes MEDLINE), Scopus (includes EMBASE). The inclusion criteria were English language and randomized trials. No date restriction was utilized. We included randomized trials and randomized controlled trials in adult patients that compared the clinical effects of acupuncture with a standard migraine preventive medication in patients with a diagnosis of chronic or episodic migraine with or without aura. We excluded letters and studies on acupuncture for headaches other than migraine. Two reviewers checked eligibility; extracted information on patients, interventions, methods, and results; and assessed the quality of the acupuncture intervention based on the American Academy of Neurology Classification of evidence matrix for therapeutic trials. The present review was not registered.

Results: Out of the 706 search results, 7 clinical trials, with a total of 1430 participants, met inclusion criteria for trials comparing the effectiveness of acupuncture to standard pharmacologic treatment. Several of the studies showed acupuncture to be more effective than standard pharmacological treatments for migraine prevention; however, methodological heterogeneity precluded aggregation of these data.

Conclusions: There is growing evidence that acupuncture is just as effective and has fewer side effects than many of the standard pharmaceutical agents that are currently used. However, the heterogeneity of the existing studies limits the effective comparison and analysis.

Keywords: acupuncture; migraine; preventive medications; review.

Niushen Zhang 1 , Tim Houle 2 , Nada Hindiyeh 1 , Sheena K Aurora 3
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PMID: 31872864 DOI: 10.1111/head.13723
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