Dia | April 4, 2010
Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) affects an estimated 2 percent of the population. Conventional therapies are limited in the success of treating this complex and unexplained condition. Current treatment is largely comprised of prescribing different medications for the varying symptoms in a trial and error approach. Research shows that as many as 90 percent of people with fibromyalgia have turned to complementary and alternative medicine to manage their symptoms. Acupuncture, in particular, has become a popular treatment choice and has shown to be an effective treatment for FMS, surpassing even warm water exercise and second only to tri-cyclic antidepressant therapy.
Category: Acupuncture, Pain |
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Tags: accupuncture, acupucnture, Acupuncture, chronic pain, fibromyalgia, Pain, pain relief, traditional oriental medicine
Dia | February 7, 2010
There have been many advances in the early detection and treatment of cancer. While the standard medical care for cancer is effective, the treatments are aggressive and cause numerous unwanted side effects as well as a lowered immune system. Acupuncture has received much attention as an adjunctive therapy in cancer treatments for its use in pain relief, reducing side effects, accelerating recovery and improving quality of life.
Category: Acupuncture |
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Tags: accupuncture, acupucnture, Acupuncture, cancer, lung cancer, oncology, pain relief, traditional oriental medicine
Dia | November 1, 2009
Acupuncture is extremely effective at treating carpal tunnel syndrome; eliminating the need for surgery or the use of anti-inflammatory drugs or corticosteroids. In fact, one of the most common reasons that people get acupuncture is for repetitive stress injuries, including carpal tunnel syndrome. Recent studies even suggest that acupuncture may be more effective than corticosteroids when it come, to treating CTS.
Category: Acupuncture, Pain |
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Tags: accupuncture, acupucnture, Acupuncture, carpal tunnel synrome, median nerve entrapment, pain relief, repetative motion injury, traditional oriental medicine
Dia | August 30, 2009
While acupuncture is readily accepted as a viable option for low back pain in mainstream modern medicine, there has been little research to prove that it works. Now there are studies that support the clinical evidence.
Category: Acupuncture, Pain, Research |
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Tags: accupuncture, acupucnture, Acupuncture, Low back pain, lumbar pain, pain relief, Research, traditional chinese medicine
Dia | February 23, 2009
This month’s (March 2009) UC Berkeley Wellness Letter has some wonderful common sense comments on constipation and colon health, including the surprising results of the study published in the 2005 American Journal of Gastroenterology which shows that “stimulants did not harm the colon”. You can read the whole article in my office if you’re interested. [...]
Category: Food and Diet, General |
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Tags: Acupuncture, constipation, dental health, headache, pain relief, weight loss
