by Karen Nunley | Feb 24, 2020 | Women's Health
Acupuncture– he insertion of ultra-thin, sterile needles into specific points in the body for an average of 15 to 30 minutes–is known to have very positive medicinal effects, reducing pain and causing improved healing for a number of different maladies. In...
by Karen Nunley | Jan 6, 2020 | Emotional Health, General Acupuncture, Managing Stess, Women's Health
Acupuncture is effective for the treatment of anxiety and depression during pregnancy, according to new research. Researchers from the Harvard Medical School (Boston, Massachusetts) and the Advanced Integrative Rehabilitation and Pain Center (Washington, DC) conclude...
by Karen Nunley | Dec 22, 2019 | General Acupuncture, Managing Stess, Women's Health
A recent study by The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has found that the brain’s reaction to refined carbohydrates such as corn syrup is similar to the craving that drug addicts experience have for drugs. The quick spike and subsequent crash in blood sugar that...
by Karen Nunley | Dec 16, 2019 | Acute & Chronic Pain Managment, Emotional Health, General Acupuncture, Managing Stess, Women's Health
A recent study compared the effectiveness of acupuncture with fluoxetine (generic Prozac) in the treatment of fibromyalgia. After four weeks, the acupuncture group was markedly better than the control group in the number of tender points. At the end of one year of the...
by Karen Nunley | Dec 9, 2019 | General Acupuncture, Women's Health
Recent research has shown that acupuncture improves the success of IVF, in vitro fertilization. With IVF, a treatment for infertility, a woman’s egg is fertilized with sperm outside the body in a petri dish and then inserted back into her uterus. Usually acupuncture...
by Karen Nunley | Dec 2, 2019 | Cancer Treatment Side Effects, Emotional Health, General Acupuncture, Women's Health
Ear acupuncture helps control hot flashes and night sweats for women receiving breast cancer treatment. Researchers studied the effectiveness of ear acupuncture on women 35 years or older receiving tamoxifen therapy. The results were clinically significant. The mean...
