Research – Acupuncture & Wellness in Cumming GA

Arthritis of the Knee

Despite the physiological discrepancy, no condition is closer to my heart than knee pain. I found Eastern medicine by shredding the cartilage of my knee. I had surgery to repair the damage, but the physical therapy didn’t work out so well, and within a few weeks my knee was the size of a basketball. Months ofContinue reading “Arthritis of the Knee”

Acupuncture & Allergies

Allergy season is upon us, and there was recently an article on Time.com reporting on a study about acupuncture and allergies. The conclusion of the study was that “Acupuncture led to statistically significant improvements in disease-specific quality of life and antihistamine use measures after 8 weeks of treatment compared with sham acupunctureContinue reading “Acupuncture & Allergies”

Acupuncture & Chronic Pain

“Acupuncture provides more relief from various types of chronic pain than does usual care and should be considered a valid therapeutic option, the authors of a meta-analysis concluded.” A meta-analysis is when a group of researches read through many other studies and write up a research report that qualifies as its own study. Much ofContinue reading “Acupuncture & Chronic Pain”

Inner Gate fMRI

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22515798 I wouldn’t even make pretenses to being a neuroscientist by donning an Einstein wig and goggles, but I can generalize wildly at the distillations of actual neurobiologists with the best of them. This article is describing the areas of the brain that “light up” when subjects were needled at a specific acupuncture point, Nei Guan,Continue reading “Inner Gate fMRI”

Migraines

The following is a study demonstrating acupuncture’s efficacy on acute migraines: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22536889 Verum (real) acupuncture demonstrated greater improvement in the migraine than did sham (fake) acupuncture. Sham acupuncture is when the needles are just pressed against the skin, or inserted into points that have no basis for treating a migraine using the Eastern diagnostic and treatmentContinue reading “Migraines”