To the Point is a 30-minute documentary that highlights the growing body of scientific evidence that acupuncture is an effective treatment for a variety of health conditions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWOm9GsKaaE
#tothepoint #acupuncture #BAcC #science
"What GPs... need, is better access for their patients to alternative, non-pharmacological treatments, which can be patchy across the country."
#Acupuncture is now officially recommended in the UK by #NICE for the #treatment of #chronic #pain, #migraines and #headaches. Acupuncture also regularly outperforms usual care/conventional treatment for a range of other conditions in both effectiveness and safety. GPs should therefore consider referring more patients for acupuncture to help reduce overprescribing and take the pressure off the #NHS. GPs can refer to practitioners accredited the professional organisations in their country, such as #Zhong or #NVA in The Netherlands.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58639253
Check out the new #Acu-Track #acupuncture #research #podcast! The first episode summarizes the current evidence-base for acupuncture, the challenges and the future.
https://acu-trackpodcast.buzzsprout.com/
Off the back of the Society for Acupuncture Research (#SAR) conference (2021), in this episode Nick and Spod discuss the current state of the evidence-base for acupuncture.
They exploring questions including:
- Where is the #evidence for acupuncture strongest and where is there potential?
- What are some of the key issues in the field such as #placebo?
- Where does the future of acupuncture research lie?
References from the show:
1) Efficacy for chronic pain (MacPherson and Charlesworth, 2020; Vickers et al., 2018):
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29198932/ and https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33362893/
2) Efficacy for migraines (Zhao et al., 2017): https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2603492
3) UK NICE guidelines chronic pain (National Institute for Clinical Excellence NICE, 2021):
https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng193/evidence/acupuncture-in-people-with-chronic-primary-pain-pdf-9075291805
4) Acupuncture and mechanical placebos (Kaptchuk, 2020): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33362886/
5) Future directions for acupuncture research (Schnyer and Hullender Rubin, 2020): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33362894/
6) Acupuncture reducing risk of coronary heart disease in osteoarthritis patients (Ton et al., 2021):
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32744906/
7) Acupuncture and anti-inflammatory pathways (Liu et al., 2020): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32791039/
8) Acupuncture for carpal tunnel syndrome (Maeda et al., 2017): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28334999/
9) Acupuncture and fibromyalgia RCT and neuroimaging (Mawla et al., 2021): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33314799/
#Acupuncture is one of the #safest #treatments in #medicine
Two #independent #researchers selected articles, extracted the data and assessed study quality. Overall risks and risks for different AE categories were obtained from random effects meta-analyses.
Conclusion: Acupuncture can be considered among the safer treatments in medicine. SAEs are rare, and the most common minor AEs are very mild. AEs requiring medical management are uncommon but necessitate medical competence to assure patient safety. Clinical and methodological heterogeneity call for standardised AE assessments tools, clear criteria for differentiating acupuncture-related AEs from therapeutically desired reactions, and identification of patient-related risk factors for AEs.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34489268/
https://www.acupuncturetimes.com/acupuncture-is-one-of-the-safest-treatments-in-medicine/
#pubmed #acupuncture #resarch
The U.S. #Navy #Seabees with #Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (#NMCB) 5 can now receive #acupuncture #treatments as part of battlefield auricular acupuncture (#BFA). NMCB-5 is the first U.S. Navy deployable command to perform BFA.
Lt. Jeffrey Moy, NMCB-5’s medical officer, and several corpsmen at NMCB-5 can provide auricular acupuncture, which consists of inserting small gold #needles in the ear to treat #pain, #post-traumatic stress disorder (#PTSD), #nausea, and #addiction–such as tobacco cessation.
https://www.dvidshub.net/news/403846/leading-front-nmcb-5-first-deployable-naval-unit-perform-battlefield-auricular-acupuncture
Sufferers of #chronic #pain are often told it's all in their head, or even that they are causing their symptoms themselves.
More and more, the insight that this is wrong, gets more widespread.
Pain is #multifaceted problem, that is best treated with modalities that can deal with the complexities of it, such as traditional #acupuncture.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/28/sufferers-of-chronic-pain-have-long-been-told-its-all-in-their-head-we-now-know-thats-wrong
