by Karen Nunley | Nov 25, 2019 | Cancer Treatment Side Effects, Emotional Health, General Acupuncture, Women's Health
I read an article today in the Journal of Clinical Oncology about a study testing acupuncture’s effectiveness in treating fatigue for patients with breast cancer. The randomized controlled trial compared acupuncture with “enhanced usual care.”...
by Karen Nunley | Nov 18, 2019 | Acute & Chronic Pain Managment, General Acupuncture
A recent NCCAM-funded study, employing individual patient data meta-analyses and published in the prestigious Archives of Internal Medicine, provides the most rigorous evidence to date that acupuncture is helpful for chronic pain. This massive multi-year study of...
by Karen Nunley | Nov 11, 2019 | Emotional Health, General Acupuncture, Managing Stress
Researchers from the Depression Clinical Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have cited acupuncture to be an effective standalone therapy for major depression for patients who are non-responsive to conventional pharmaceutical antidepressant...
by Karen Nunley | Nov 4, 2019 | Acute & Chronic Pain Managment, General Acupuncture
New research concludes that acupuncture is effective for relieving pain of the neck and lower back. Researchers studied the effects of acupuncture on injured neck and low back discs. Often with this type of injury, there is local pain plus nerve pain that radiates...
