| Below is a list of articles with the most recent ones listed first. |
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Pine bark extract shows arthritis benefits |
Topic: Pain and Sports Injuries |
| Extracts from French maritime pine bark may reduce the pain and stiffness associated with arthritis of the knee by about 40 per cent, suggests a new international study. |
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Acupuncture Shows Promise in Treating Osteoarthritis of the Knee |
Topic: Pain and Sports Injuries |
| In one of the largest trials of its kind published to date, researchers in Maryland have found that acupuncture applied to specific points on the leg can provide significant pain relief and improve function in patients who have osteoarthritis of the knee. The results of the trial, published in the D... |
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Acupuncture Provides Significant Benefits for Migraine Patients |
Topic: Pain and Sports Injuries |
| A new report published in the online version of the British Medical Journal1 has found that acupuncture is a useful, cost-effective treatment for chronic headaches, particularly migraines. The report found that over a 12-month period, headache patients who received regular acupuncture sessions repor... |
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Acupuncture Provides Long-Term Relief of Low Back Pain |
Topic: Pain and Sports Injuries |
| While there is no definitive way to resolve lower back pain, the use of acupuncture to treat this condition has increased dramatically in the past few decades, based in a large extent to placebo-controlled studies that have validated it as a reliable method of pain relief. The results of a recent st... |
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Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medical Approaches for Fibro |
Topic: Pain and Sports Injuries |
| Fibromyalgia is a commonly encountered disorder characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain, stiffness, paresthesia, nonrestorative sleep, and easy fatigability, along with multiple tender points that are widely and symmetrically distributed. Fibromyalgia affects predominantly women in a ratio ... |
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Acupuncture and Frozen Shoulder |
Topic: Pain and Sports Injuries |
| Several studies have reported that acupuncture can successfully treat frozen shoulder, but the majority of these studies have not been of the randomized, controlled trial (RCT) variety. A new study using the RCT format compared the use of acupuncture (along with exercise) to exercise alone in a smal... |
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Migraines & Celestial Mansion |
Topic: Pain and Sports Injuries |
| In Chinese medicine, migraine headaches are referred to as pain tou tong (side head pain). However, they are also referred to as pian tou feng (side head wind). This last term suggests that all migraines are associated with an element of wind. That wind may be either externally contracted or interna... |
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Herbal Alternatives to Drugs in Pain Management |
Topic: Pain and Sports Injuries |
| According to traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), the fundamental etiology of pain is qi stagnation, blood stagnation, or both. It is often said that where there is pain, there is stagnation; where there is stagnation, there is pain. Therefore, effective pain relief most often requires the use of her... |
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Fibromyalgia Studies Show Positive Outcomes for Acupuncture |
Topic: Pain and Sports Injuries |
| Recent research suggests acupuncture may provide relief to people afflicted with fibromyalgia. In a pair of studies by two separate research groups, similar results showed a significant improvement for participants in terms of pain and other symptoms. The positive results could lead to a greater acc... |
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TREATING ADVANCED ARTHRITIS |
Topic: Pain and Sports Injuries |
| During the past year, serious concerns have been raised about one of the most important pharmaceutical therapies for persistent arthritis, the selective COX-2 inhibitor drugs. These non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) are potent analgesics that were developed specifically to avoid the gas... |
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