We believe AiM readers will be interested to learn of the factors that led to negative reporting of the positive study by Hinman et al on acupuncture for knee osteoarthritis (OA) pain. The study showed the effects of acupuncture to be significantly superior to no acupuncture and consistent with the best current evidence, but the authors actually reported: ‘Our findings do not support acupunctur...

In the October 2014 edition of JAMA, Dr. Hinman and her colleagues published an acupuncture clinical trial entitled “Acupuncture for Chronic Knee Pain: A Randomized Clinical Trial” and concluded that “in patients older than 50 years with moderate or severe chronic knee pain, neither laser nor needle acupuncture conferred benefit over sham for pain or function. Our findings do not support acupun...

The aim of this study is to compare the distinct cerebral activation with continued wave (CW) and 10 Hz-modulated wave (MW) stimulation during low-level laser acupuncture. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies were performed to investigate the possible mechanism during laser acupuncture stimulation at the left foot's yongquan (K1) acupoint. There are 12 healthy right-handed volun...

High-tech acupuncture research has been performed for 10 years at the Research Unit of Biomedical Engineering in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at the Medical University of Graz. This article as a part of a series comprises animal experiments in the field of needle and laser acupuncture. The investigations presented in this article were performed in pigs, dogs and sheep. In all studies ...

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of violet laser stimulation on three acupuncture points in anesthetized rats and to test the hypothesis that violet laser light can modulate neurovegetative parameters like heart rate (HR), heart rate variability (HRV), and mean arterial blood pressure (MAP). Recordings were performed in 10 male anesthetized rats under three conditions in Beijin...

Background: Trigeminal neuralgia is a painful neuropathic condition that is often resistant to conventional treatments. Case reports suggest that stimulation of acupuncture points may offer an alternative approach to treatment. Objective: To present 2 cases of treatment-resistant trigeminal neuralgia that responded dramatically to acupuncture therapy based on neuroanatomical point selection. De...

1 School of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung 40402, Taiwan 2Graduate Institute of Acupuncture Science, China Medical University, Taichung 40402, Taiwan 3Department of Physiology, Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China 4 School of Chinese Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, 10 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong ...

Purpose LifeWave Corp has developed non-transdermal energy enhancer patches that stimulate acupuncture points in order to heighten energy by enhancing the autonomic regulation of blood vessels and hence improving circulation. A laser Doppler perfusion imager was used to determine microvascular perfusion of the index, middle and ring finger tips pre and post application of the patches on wrist a...

a Research Unit for Complementary and Integrative Laser Medicine, b Research Unit of Biomedical Engineering in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, and c TCM Research Center Graz, Medical University of Graz, Graz , Austria; d German Academy for Acupuncture, European Academy for Traditional Chinese Medicine, Munich , Germany; e Department of Information and Computing Science, School of Mathem...