by Karen Nunley | Dec 16, 2019 | Acute & Chronic Pain Managment, Emotional Health, General Acupuncture, Managing Stress, 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...
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 | Oct 28, 2019 | Cancer Treatment Side Effects, Women's Health
A study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology shows that acupuncture may be an effective therapy for joint pain and stiffness in breast cancer patients who are being treated with commonly used hormonal therapies including aromatase inhibitor therapy. Joint...
by Karen Nunley | Oct 14, 2019 | General Acupuncture, Women's Health
Acupuncture in combination with clomiphene (clomid/clomifert) increases ovulation and pregnancy rates more than just taking clomiphene alone. In a recent study, researchers measured changes in ovulation, endometrial thickness, cervical mucus, pelvic fluid, and...
