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Pain and limited function of the locomotor system are one of the most common reasons for consulting a doctor or therapist. The muscle plays a key role in this because of its anatomical and functional propertie...
Ankylosing spondylitis (AS), mainly presented as inflammatory back pain, costs 10-fold more in drug than the general population (1). Current treatment has either limited evidence or serious side effects. Acupu...
1000 steps a day, 160,000 kilometers in life must afford the ankle. Ankle ailments caused by 5 to 10% of primary osteoarthritis, by folding, accident, sports accident.
As it may be unethical to recruit the control group in clinical trials, the concept of objective performance criteria (OPC) is used by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to simplify the marketing author...
Humans interpret sensory inputs based on actual stimuli and expectations of the stimuli. We investigated whether manipulating information related to the physiological response could change the somatosensory ex...
The research was conducted using a multidisciplinary approach. A questionnaire was submitted in Healthcare Units, and doctors (MD), as well as healthy people (HP), were interviewed regarding their knowledge an...
The Munich outpatient program in complementary and alternative medicine (MOCAM) is a 4-week, interdisciplinary treatment for chronic pain (following international standards) based on Traditional Chinese Medici...
Despite recent advances in perioperative analgesia, pain control in patients after caesarean section (CS) remains insufficient. Acupuncture is a promising method for treatment of acute postoperative pain. The ...
Normally no active ear acupuncture points can be detected in healthy adults. However, irritated ear acupuncture points can be identified in adults who are suffering from any pathology. Furthermore, there is on...
Acupuncture mechanisms of action, embeded in the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), are characterized by complex and multifactorial systems which involves multiple correlations, responding to ch...
Caution needs to be exercised when acupuncture is administered in patients with coagulopathy or on anticoagulant or antiplatelet drugs, which may increase the risk of bleeding after surgery or trauma. Previous...
This study aims to evaluate the efficacy, safety, appropriate dose of Hanslim, a Korean traditional herbal medicine, on obese patients, comparing to the placebo.
To assess the feasibility of a definitive trial investigating the effects of acupuncture on atopic dermatitis symptoms including itching.
Psycho-neuro-(endocrino)-immunological disorders - such as signs and symptoms of rheumatic diseases and psychosomatic stress-/pain syndromes - are product of dysregulation of these systems. Acupuncture and/or ...
In this observation we measured psychological and somatic burden and the changes after acupuncture in patients with dry eye syndrome.
The acupuncture point Pericardium 6 is widely known and used to prevent and treat postoperative vomiting and nausea in adults and children. Nevertheless it is not used in primary care children hospitals in Ger...
The problem of treating and rehabilitation of trauma pathology is very urgent. But there is a lack of rehabilitation programs providing complex application of medical therapy, including traditional Chinese med...
We usually trace the beginnings of acupuncture back to the northern parts of China four thousand years. The discovery of the mummy of Ötzi, the famous Tyrolean Iceman who lived about 5 300 years ago has unexpe...
Auriculomedicine (AM) is a medical discipline devised by doctor Paul Nogier some 50 years ago. AM is fundamentally related to auriculotherapy. AM viewed as a diagnostic tool uses not only the auricule but also...
Spinal cord injuries (SCI) often lead to devastating loss of neurological functions. Among other therapeutic methods, acupuncture is applied to support recovery. In former studies with healthy volunteers, we c...
The NADA protocol is a mini system with applications in broad settings, not so much about the combination of auricular points (Shen Men, Sympathetic, Kidney, Liver, Lung) as about the context in which used. At...
In situations following a large-scale disaster, acupuncture and massage therapies (AP/MT) can be applied to various health problems in evacuation centers. After the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Disa...
Depression is accompanied by mental depression and a reduction in mood, loss of appetite, weight loss and sadness. Risk factors for dementia are arterial hypertension, renal insufficiency, obesity, diabetes me...
Lifestyle medicine is a field of evidence-based medicine dealing with the prevention and treatment of diseases caused by lifestyle factors, such as nutrition, physical activity, stress management, epigenetics,...
Electroacupuncture (EA) has been recommended as a novel treatment for managing chronic pain. Recently, it was reported a positive results for managing neuropathic pain conditions. The purpose of this study is ...
We have been analyzing our experiences about the efficiency of acupuncture for painful amputees suffering from their stumps. Stump pain is usually hard to cure, often beyond the efficiency of painkillers. This...
In Japan, traditional herbal medicine (Kampo medicine) is integrated in the conventional western medical system. The Kampo prescription Daikenchuto (DKT) has traditionally been used for abdominal pain or abdom...
In modern multimodal therapeutic concepts in oncology, supportive therapies play an increasing role. Their aim is the prevention and treatment of side effects of chemo- and radiotherapy. Furthermore, they can ...
The strategy in treating patients with migraine type headache is sometimes very challenging. In Chinese medicine the classical diagnosis using history, tongue and pulse diagnosis leads to a selection of points...
Taxan-containing chemotherapies used on patients with Mamma Carcinoma lead in 30 % of the cases to painful peripheral neuropathy. This is difficult to treat and studies for non-medical treatments are lacking. ...
This lecture will present a state-of-the-art summary of the emerging evidence for acupuncture in the treatment of insulin resistance in humans and animals. An overview of the various methods available to measu...
The foundation of the German Medical Acupuncture Association DÄGfA dates back to 1951. In the beginning a club of a few interested doctors, others followed and these days we have several big medical acupuncture a...
ICMART has members in all of the world… except in China. The reason seems that in China there are two kinds of doctors: Western medicine and traditional Chinese one, and acupuncture is mainly practiced by the ...
ICMART is a non-profit organization formed in 1983 and has grown to become the largest umbrella organization representing medical acupuncture world-wide with a membership of 80 associations and some 35,000 doc...
This study was designed to systematically evaluate the effectiveness of acupuncture treatment for arrhythmia compared to existing drug therapy.
Recent meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials (RCT) on perioperative acupuncture (AC) suggest that AC might be a useful additional tool in treatment of postoperative pain (POP). In particular, AC was sh...
Auricular acupuncture (AA) is a promising treatment for preoperative anxiety and was reported to be better than placebo in treatment of exam anxiety. The aim was to compare AA with progressive muscle relaxatio...
The growth history may be characterized by a continual transition from immaturity to maturity, or may involve a number of periods punctuated by rapid change from one stage to another.
Patients with calcaneal spurs and achillodynia often suffer from a dysfunction of the piriformis muscle. The descending chain runs form GB 30 to UB 40, UB 58 to UB 60 and KI 3 and is sometimes hard to treat wi...
Muscle tension headache, TMJ and cervical spine problems are a significant public health problem.
This talk outlines the research strategy of the Multidisciplinary Pain Center at the University Hospital of the LMU Munich using quantitative sensory testing (QST) to explore clinical effects and mechanisms of...
Quantitative sensory testing encompasses a variety of standardized tests where a human subject rates the (pain) intensity or threshold to different combinations of sensory stimuli. These ratings may provide in...
Qìgong Yangsheng - Beispiele für therapeutische Dialoge mit der Lebenskraft (Qì):
Pharmacopuncture is a combined method of acupuncture and herbal medicine. Especially bee venom has been used for more than 2,000 years around the world. Bee venom pharmacopuncture is the one of the most used p...
This article proposes to build bridges between addictions, neuroscience and acupuncture.
Posttraumatic stress disorder but also depression or chronic pain may be triggered by psychological traumata. There are only two evidence based medical treatment methods. The treatment of psychic traumata with...
Neural therapy is a widely used procedure. The treatment system in which procain is injected into certain neuromodulative trigger of the body, such as scars or peripheral nerves, in an attempt to relieve chron...
Homing of stem cells (SCs) to desired targets such as injured tissues remains a lingering problem in cell-based therapeutics. Studies on the biodistribution of intravenously administered SCs have shown the ine...
Plantar fasciitis, also referred to as plantar heel pain, is a common foot pathology among runners and other athletes. The clinical guidelines of the 2014 Orthopedic Section of the American Physical Therapy Assoc...
This case report describes acupuncture treatment to manage paraneoplastic night sweating secondary to pancreatic cancer. A 56-year-old gentleman with a 2-month history of night sweating responded well over a 1...