Stimulated by Jung et al 2020.[1] Image from Slashme on Wikipedia.I wonder if the person or committee that came up with the acronym MACE had ever seen this image of the fruit of Myristica fragrans (nutmeg) split open to show the seed with the surrounding aril (also known as mace). I cannot help thinking it … Continue reading Acupuncture and MACE
Stimulated by Yu et al 2020,[1] and Zhang et al 2020.[2] Image from Federico Beccari on Unsplash. The key paper I am highlighting this week comes from the same imaging centre in Boston that gave us Rewiring the brain with acupuncture.[1] It was another paper that I nearly missed, but a subsequent paper in Acupuncture … Continue reading The amygdala and Rx of cLBP
Stimulated by Qin et al 2020,[1] and Pei et al 2020.[2] Image modified from Figure 1 of Qin et al 2020.[1] The first paper I am highlighting this week is an adverse event report attributed to acupuncture. It is quite unusual for two reasons. First, as the title states, the case presented with a shoulder … Continue reading Atraumatic glenohumeral dislocation, IBS and other stories
Stimulated by Lin et al 2020.[1] Image from HVAC photoshoot 2012.[2] This paper caught my eye for two reasons. First because the title implied the results might be useful for clinical practice, and second because it was an acupuncture trial published in the journal Pain, a journal that does not publish acupuncture trials very often. … Continue reading Frequency of Rx in OAK
Stimulated by Arriaga-Pizano et al 2020.[1] Image by Cesar Marquez on Unsplash. This paper was published online on 20th May, and it took me a while before I had a closer look and discovered that it is really quite unique. It was a subsequent paper published a week later, a systematic review of acupuncture in low back pain … Continue reading Adrenaline Athletes and Acupuncture
Stimulated by Lin et al 2020,[1] Park et al 2020,[2] and Khan et al 2019.[3] Shifen Waterfalls, Shifen, Taiwan. Image by Vernon Raineil Cenzon on Unsplash, modified by MC in Lightroom. What is the risk of mortality associated with acupuncture? Well, it depends on the context of course, and I am using this title to draw together a … Continue reading Risk of mortality 2020
Image by Paweł Czerwiński on Unsplash. The main paper this week was an obvious choice as it is a big clinical trial published in a mainstream general medicine journal. Currently the paper has not surfaced on PubMed, although it is published online. I was tipped off by an email from the journal editor as I had been one … Continue reading Functional dyspepsia 2020
Stimulated by Li et al 2020,[1] and Kim et al 2020.[2] Image by Sharon Pittaway on Unsplash. I was looking around for a story, and I thought I ought to check through the Online First papers from Acupuncture in Medicine. I’m sure you frequently do the same. Another paper from Lisa’s team (see last week’s … Continue reading Metabolic effects 2020
Stimulated by Risal et al 2019.[1] Yes, I am late to this party! Well, in my defence, there is no mention of ‘acup’ anywhere in the text of this paper, so it did not pop up in my searches back in December 2019 when it was published. By the way, ‘acup’ is a really useful … Continue reading Transgenerational PCOS
Stimulated by Kim et al,[1] and Lu et al.[2] No sooner than I have blogged about acupotomy for the first time (last week), than another novel related technique is reported. The first paper I am highlighting is a case report of the use of round acupuncture in carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). The second paper is … Continue reading Round acupuncture 2020
