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Welcome to our Chinese medicine and acupuncture research news pages. We add to the content of these pages continuously as more research news comes in. Browse through the complete archive below or use the category links on the right.
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Acupuncture helps pregnant women with pelvic pain stay active
Treating pelvic girdle pain (PGP) in pregnancy with either acupuncture or transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) may enable pregnant women to stay active, according to research carried out in Sweden ...
Acupuncture durably improves prostate pain
Categories: Pelvic, Acupuncture research
Chinese clinicians report that acupuncture can durably improve symptoms of chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) ...
Acupuncture as effective as local anaesthetic shots for chronic pelvic pain
Categories: Pelvic, Acupuncture
Ashi (trigger point) acupuncture is as effective as local anaesthetic injections in reducing symptoms of abdominal myofascial pain syndrome (AMPS) ...
Acupuncture better than drugs for chronic prostatitis pain
Categories: Male disorders, Pelvic
Acupuncture compares favourably with drug treatment for chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS), according to Chinese authors ...
Acupuncture for back and pelvic pain during pregnancy
A Cochrane Database systematic review has concluded that current evidence supports acupuncture as a treatment for pelvic and back pain in pregnancy.
Acupuncture helps with prostatitis pain
Categories: Male disorders, Pelvic
A pilot study in Turkey has found that acupuncture can improve symptoms and quality of life for men diagnosed with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS). A cohort of 97 patients received six weekly sessions of acupuncture at bilateral Zhongliao BL-33. The results showed that there was a statistically significant decrease in all prostatitis symptom scores (pain, urinary functio ...
ACUPUNCTURE FOR LOW-BACK AND PELVIC PAIN IN PREGNANCY
Acupuncture may be more effective than physiotherapy for pregnancy-related low-back and pelvic pain, according to a recent prospective study. Sixty pregnant women with low-back and pelvic pain were randomised to receive 10 treatments of either acupuncture (30-minute sessions, given within 1 month) or physiotherapy (50-minute sessions of counselling and physical therapies, given within 6 to 8 weeks ...
ACUPUNCTURE FOR PELVIC AND BACK PAIN IN PREGNANCY
Categories: Pelvic, Pregnancy & Labour
In this Swedish study, 72 pregnant women (24-37 weeks) suffering pelvic or low back pain were randomly assigned to an acupuncture group or a control group. Traditional acupuncture points and ahshi points were needled (with deqi elicited) in individualised treatments, once or twice a week until disappearance of symptoms or delivery in the acupuncture group. Treatment was given for at least three we ...
ACUPUNCTURE & CHRONIC PELVIC PAIN IN MEN
Categories: Male disorders, Pelvic
This Japanese study treated ten men suffering from chronic pelvic pain syndrome (eight of whom had previously received pharmacological medicines without benefit) at a single acupuncture point, Zhongliao BL-33, with the needle retained for ten minutes whilst being rotated manually. Treatment was given weekly for five weeks. At the end of the treatment period, there was significant improvement in ch ...
ACUPUNCTURE EFFECTIVE FOR PELVIC PAIN IN PREGNANCY
Categories: Pelvic, Pregnancy & Labour
One in three women suffer potentially severe and disabling pelvic girdle pain during pregnancy. Now a Swedish study has demonstrated that acupuncture is more effective than either standard or specialised exercises in relieving the pain. 386 pregnant women were assigned to a six-week treatment programme involving either standard home exercise, standard exercise plus acupuncture or specialised exerc ...
ACUPUNCTURE & PELVIC PAIN
Categories: Pelvic, Pregnancy & Labour
Acupuncture has previously been shown to be more effective than either standard or specialised exercises in relieving pelvic pain in pregnancy (BMJ 2005;330:761). Now a new study has compared subcutaneous needling without further stimulation and deep needling with deqi for the same problem. Both groups experienced significant improvements in levels of pain intensity at rest and in daily activities ...
TREATING PELVIC AND BACK PAIN IN PREGNANCY
Categories: Pelvic, Pregnancy & Labour
A systematic review using the Cochrane database has assessed the effects of interventions for preventing and treating back and pelvic pain in pregnancy. Authors searched the Cochrane database for randomised controlled trials of any treatment used to prevent or reduce the incidence or severity of back or pelvic pain in pregnancy. Eight studies (1305 participants from five countries) were included i ...
ACUPUNCTURE PROMISING FOR PELVIC PAIN
Categories: Pelvic, Pregnancy & Labour
A systematic review of the effectiveness of acupuncture in treating pelvic and back pain in pregnancy has found promising results. Two small trials on mixed pelvic/back pain and one large high-quality trial on pelvic pain met the inclusion criteria. The authors concluded that the current evidence, although limited, supports the use of acupuncture in treating the conditions. (Acupuncture for pelvic ...
ACUPUNCTURE FOR PELVIC GIRDLE PAIN (PGP) DURING PREGNANCY
Categories: Pregnancy & labour, Pelvic
Swedish researchers have compared acupuncture with non-penetrating sham acupuncture in women with pelvic girdle pain (PGP) during pregnancy. In a randomised double-blinded controlled trial 115 pregnant women with PGP were randomly allocated to standard treatment plus acupuncture or to standard treatment plus non-penetrating sham acupuncture for eight weeks. After treatment, median pain decreased i ...
ACUPUNCTURE RELIEVES PROSTATE PAIN
Categories: Pelvic
Electroacupuncture (EA) can relieve symptoms in men with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome and is particularly effective for pain relief. In the first randomised controlled trial of EA for this condition, Korean researchers randomised 39 men into three treatment groups: advice and exercise plus 12 sessions of EA (EA); advice and exercise plus 12 sessions of sham EA (SEA); and advice ...
ACUPUNCTURE & CHRONIC PROSTATITIS
Categories: Male disorders, Pelvic
Some sources suggest that up to 10% of men suffer from some of the symptoms of chronic prostatitis, more commonly referred to nowadays as chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS). Whilst western medical treatment does not offer a lot of help for this condition, there have been reports and studies rom China over many years of its successful treatment by acupuncture. Now a western study has confirmed the ...
ACUPUNCTURE & CHRONIC PELVIC PAIN IN MEN
Categories: Male disorders, Pelvic
This Japanese study treated ten men suffering from chronic pelvic pain syndrome (eight of whom had previously received pharmacological medicines without benefit) at a single acupuncture point, Zhongliao BL-33, with the needle retained for ten minutes whilst being rotated manually. Treatment was given weekly for five weeks. At the end of the treatment period, there was significant improvement in ch ...
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