Migraines are a neurological disease that affects about 39 million men, women and children in the United States and close to one billion people worldwide. These headaches and the associated symptoms are considered among the top 10 most disabling illnesses in the world with an unknown cause. Providing relief require a breadth and depth of… Continue reading How to Win The Migraine Battle
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Mind-Body Therapies During Breast Cancer Treatment
Researchers have come up with an evidence-based list of appropriate integrative therapies for patients with breast cancer. The list includes meditation and music therapy. The therapies are an addition to conventional medical care, not a replacement. The newly updated guidelines came from research by experts at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and the… Continue reading Mind-Body Therapies During Breast Cancer Treatment
Parkinson’s and Complementary Health Treatments
Editor’s note: If you’re struggling with Parkinson’s, or have a loved one who is, it may be tempting to try complementary health treatments in addition to conventional medicine. But how good are these remedies? Here, experts from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, one of the National Institutes of Health, offer an overview.… Continue reading Parkinson’s and Complementary Health Treatments
Acupuncture Lowers Hypertension by Activating Natural Opioids
Researchers with the Univerisity of Calfornia, Irvine Susan Samueli Center for Integrative Medicine have found that regular electroacupunture treatment can lower hypertension (high blood pressure) by increasing the release of a kind of natural opioid in the brainstem region that controls blood pressure. An October 31st 2016 release from the university reports that In tests… Continue reading Acupuncture Lowers Hypertension by Activating Natural Opioids
Acupuncture Doesn’t Improve Chronic Knee Pain
Among patients older than 50 years with moderate to severe chronic knee pain, neither laser nor needle acupuncture provided greater benefit on pain or function compared to sham laser acupuncture, according to a study in the October 1st 2014 issue of JAMA. A release from the publishers notes that chronic knee pain affects many people… Continue reading Acupuncture Doesn’t Improve Chronic Knee Pain
Acupuncture Helps Breast Ca Patients
Use of electroacupuncture (EA) – a form of acupuncture where a small electric current is passed between pairs of acupuncture needles – produces significant improvements in fatigue, anxiety and depression in as little as eight weeks for early stage breast cancer patients experiencing joint pain related to the use of aromatase inhibitors (AIs). That is the finding of a randomized, placebo-controlled trial examining the intervention led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and published online in July 2014 in the journal Cancer.
My Acupuncture Treatment
Earlier this year I completed a six-week trial of acupuncture to see if it would banish the pain in my butt from Piriformis syndrome, an inflammation of the sciatic nerve. It didn’t fix that, but it did do something else that I hadn’t experienced with massage or chiropractic treatment (and certainly not with ibuprofen). And I did feel better.