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Evidence-based studies and clinical research on acupuncture efficacy

Research StudyChronic Pain

The Effect of Acupuncture on Elbow Joint Sports Injuries Based on Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

Acupuncture treatment achieved 100% effectiveness for chronic elbow injuries in young athletes compared to 40% in contro…

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Research StudyChronic Pain

The combined treatment of entrapped Infrapatellar Branch of the Saphenous Nerve after ACL reconstruction: Ultrasound-guided perineural injection and acupotomy.

Acupotomy combined with ultrasound-guided perineural injection immediately reduced severe nerve entrapment pain from 10/…

Journal of back and muscul…Read More →
Research StudyChronic Pain

From inflammatory activation to fibrotic remodeling: the central role of macrophage heterogeneity in frozen shoulder.

Macrophages undergo sequential phenotypic transformation during frozen shoulder progression, with the CCL2/CCR2 axis and…

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Research StudyChronic Pain

Integrating gene expression, neurochemical signatures, and neurocognitive profiles to decode cortical reorganization in IBS-D.

IBS-D patients show distinct cortical reorganization patterns that correlate with immune-related gene expression and dys…

Progress in neuro-psychoph…Read More →
Research StudyChronic Pain

Gut sensory neurons as regulators of neuro-immune-microbial interactions: from molecular mechanisms to precision therapy for IBD/IBS.

Gut sensory neurons from different origins (IPANs, DRG, and vagal ganglia) orchestrate bidirectional epithelial-immune c…

Journal of neuroinflammati…Read More →
Research StudyChronic Pain

Dectin-1 induces TRPV1 sensitization and contributes to visceral hypersensitivity of irritable bowel syndrome in male mice.

Dectin-1 activation sensitizes TRPV1 pain receptors and contributes to visceral hypersensitivity in IBS, with blocking D…

European journal of pain (…Read More →
Research StudyChronic Pain

Exploration of Japanese women seeking acupuncture for menopausal symptoms: a preliminary study.

Individualized acupuncture treatments significantly reduced menopausal symptoms in Japanese women exclusively through im…

International journal of c…Read More →
Research StudyChronic Pain

The status and future of acupuncture clinical research.

Acupuncture was effective for treating chronic pain conditions and outperformed standard care, but showed minimal advant…

Journal of alternative and…Read More →
Randomized Controlled TrialChronic Pain

Effects of Baduanjin exercise in alleviating symptoms of fibromyalgia syndrome: A randomized controlled trial.

Daily Baduanjin exercise for 4 weeks significantly improved fibromyalgia disease impact, pain, sleep quality, fatigue, a…

Complementary therapies in…Read More →
Research StudyChronic Pain

Adding Self-Care Complementary and Integrative Health Therapies to Care for Chronic Pain: The Assessing Pain, Patient Reported Outcomes and Complementary Health (APPROACH) Study.

Adding self-care therapies to practitioner-delivered complementary treatments resulted in similar pain interference impr…

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Randomized Controlled TrialChronic Pain

Efficacy of acupuncture for chronic recalcitrant plantar fasciitis: A randomized trial.

High-intensity acupuncture produced a 76.7% responder rate for chronic recalcitrant plantar fasciitis at 16 weeks compar…

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Meta-AnalysisChronic Pain

Acupuncture as Adjunctive Therapy for Cervical Cancer Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Acupuncture as adjunctive therapy significantly reduced pain in cervical cancer patients with a large effect size (SMD=-…

Journal of pain and sympto…Read More →

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