Safety concerns remain a significant barrier to appropriate referral from oncology teams, to use by acupuncturists and to ...

Electro-acupuncture may help manage obesity by reducing osteoprotegerin, a protein tied to fat cell growth. This TCM approach ...

Dry needling and acupuncture both involve puncturing the skin with thin needles for therapeutic purposes. While their shared aim is often pain relief, acupuncture currently has more support in ...

Groundbreaking research has transformed our understanding of acupuncture's role in treating sciatica, a debilitating ...

Ask me my thoughts on acupuncture a few years ago and I probably would have nodded along about the many benefits of the ancient practice despite having absolutely zero intention of giving it a go. I'm ...

The first received 10 standardized acupuncture treatment sessions for sciatica over the course of four weeks. The second received a "sham" treatment, in which practitioners placed the needles at ...

As with acupuncturists, gong bath facilitators also consider the possibility that disease may be caused by stagnant energy in the body – the ubiquitous Ch’i, pent up again. By working with sound, so ...

Recent evidence suggests that acupuncture can help relieve the pain caused by sciatica, a common condition in which the ...

"Recent rigorous studies have moved the needle toward accepting acupuncture as an evidence-based treatment for sciatica," punned Jerard Z. Kneifati-Hayek, MD, MS, of Columbia University in New ...

A recent randomized controlled trial has shed light on the efficacy of acupuncture as a treatment for refractory irritable ...

Acupuncture is the practice of treating medical conditions by triggering certain points on the skin with needles, said Hu Minxiong, leader of the 17th Chinese medical team. "Acupuncture may help with ...

In a drug treatment centre in a wooden stilt house deep in the Thai jungle, young refugees from Myanmar wait patiently for ...