Resources for a More Balanced Life
Acupuncture Works for Neck, Back, Arthritis, Headache & Shoulder Pain
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...
Can Acupuncture Alone Help Depression?
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...
Acupuncture Treats Low Back and Neck Pain
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...
Acupuncture May Relieve Joint Pain Caused by Some Breast Cancer Treatments
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...
Acupuncture Improves Exercise Tolerance in Heart Patients, German Study Finds
More good news about acupuncture and skeletal muscle strength. This time for heart patients. Chronic weakness of the heart muscle is one of the most frequent diseases and causes of death in Europe. Patients with this disease suffer in particular from a reduction in...
Acupuncture Improves Fertility Drug Success Rate
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...
Top 3 Reasons Americans Use Acupuncture
According to a new study people use acupuncture as a complementary and alternative approach to conventional treatment as well as a preventive modality to promote general health. The top three reasons given for going to an acupuncturist were for: A specific health...
Sore Muscles from Working Out?
You start working out with a new routine. Maybe it's Crossfit, weightlifting or even walking. You push through it and you feel great. Until the next day, or the day after that. Then your muscles start feeling really stiff and sore. Ouch! Scientists call this "delayed...
Acupuncture Helps with PCOS
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), a female endocrine disorder, is a common condition that I am treating more and more often in my clients. PCOS is a condition in which there is an imbalance of a woman's female sex hormones. This hormone imbalance may cause changes in...
Acupuncture Helps Skeletal Muscle Loss
A team of Japanese researchers has demonstrated that acupuncture can reduce skeletal muscle loss and improve heatlth in elderly and medical patients. Acupuncture shows promise as a future non-drug treatment for muscle atrophy. Skeletal muscle mass loss has a profound...
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Karen E. Nunley
Healing Acupuncture Center
8705 Shoal Creek Blvd. #113
Austin, TX 78757
(512) 338-8810
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