Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com I was spoilt for choice this week! Various papers had the potential to make the cut, but there was no easy way to draw them together, apart from the fact that many were systematic reviews.[1–5] The race and sex from the title refers to a couple of recent experimental papers … Continue reading Reviewing, Race & Sex
Stimulated by Jin et al 2017,[1] and Li et al 2020.[2] Shanghai – photo by Wolfram K on Pexels.com The full title of this paper is: Unforgettable Ups and Downs of Acupuncture Anesthesia in China (US English). It is a great title for the subject matter as it drew me in to read the whole … Continue reading Unforgettable Ups and Downs
Stimulated by Ormsby et al 2020.[1] Photo by NEOSiAM 2020 on Pexels.com This is a pragmatic 3-arm comparative trial. It has feasibility in the title, so it may be that the authors are planning a much bigger version. I’ll ask! (No reply as yet...) Pregnant women of 24 weeks gestation who scored 13 or more … Continue reading Acupuncture for antenatal depression
Stimulated by Power et al 2020,[1] and Kang et al 2020.[2] Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Placebo figured heavily in last week’s blog, so I could not overlook this paper when it appeared on PubMed at the end of the same week. The first author has a remarkably suitable name on a paper that tests … Continue reading The Power of Placebo and MUI
Stimulated by Vase 2020,[1] and Krause et al 2020.[2] Image from Deniah’s initial visit to the BA first class lounge at Heathrow T5… de nada sweetie! This week I had a couple of quite different papers that caught my interest, and I have been able to link them by chance with the help of my … Continue reading de nada
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
