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RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
Wang Shaosong, Sun Jingqing, Feng Qingyin, L I Bin, Wang Xin, Yuan Fan, Cui Yingxue
OBJECTIVE: To explore the effect of electroacupuncture on skeletal muscle pain in Parkinson's disease (PD). METHODS: A single-center randomized controlled trial was conducted with sixty patients with Parkinson's disease with skeletal muscle pain were randomly divided into electroacupuncture group and sham acupuncture control group with 30 patients each. The electric acupuncture group was treated with electric acupuncture, while the control group was treated with Park needle pseudoacupuncture...
April 2024: Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Cheng-Chan Yang, Gen-Min Lin, Jen-Hung Wang, Hsiao-Chiang Chu, Hsien-Tsai Wu, Jian-Jung Chen, Cheuk-Kwan Sun
Using four-channel photoplethysmography (PPG) for acquiring peripheral arterial waveforms, this study investigated vascular and autonomic impacts of combined acupuncture-far infrared radiation (FIR) in improving peripheral circulation. Twenty healthy young adults aged 25.5 ± 4.6 were enrolled for 30-minute measurement. Each subject underwent four treatment strategies, including acupuncture at ST36 (Zusanli), pseudoacupuncture, FIR, and combined acupuncture-FIR at different time points. Response was assessed at 5-minute intervals...
2017: Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine: ECAM
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RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
M Kunze, H J Seidel, G Stübe
At a comparison among 5 therapy methods the small psychotherapy with a success-rate of 74% is high-significantly more prosperous than the other examined methods. The acupuncture with 31% long-term success is significantly superior to the pseudoacupuncture (17.2%). The papaverine therapy results in a long-lasting status free of symptoms in 17.2% of the patients and is significantly different from the results of the papaverine-placebo-therapy (0%). Distinct differences in the success-rates of the small psychotherapy with different therapists prove the role of the personality and the perfection in mastering the methods with psychotherapeutic procedures...
October 15, 1990: Zeitschrift Für die Gesamte Innere Medizin und Ihre Grenzgebiete
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