Smoking :: How can I stop smoking?
Acupuncture? Nicotine patches? Telephone therapy? Antidepressants? Cognitive behavioural therapy?Which work? Which have no effect? Which are dangerous? Confused?Over 40 Cochrane reviews analyse the evidence.
For example, one systematic review (CD000146) shows how nicotine patches can double the odds of successful quitting. Another (CD000031) concludes that the antidepressants bupropion and nortriptyline [...]
Pregnancy :: Acupuncture relieves pelvic pain in pregnancy
Acupuncture and exercise can help relieve pelvic pain during pregnancy, Swedish researchers said.
About 30 percent of pregnant women suffer pelvic pain, usually in the back. Although doctors are not sure what causes it, they suspect a surge in hormones during pregnancy affects muscles and ligaments.
Women can wear a [...]
Osteoarthritis :: Easing the pain with acupuncture
Can the ancient healing art of acupuncture help relieve the persistent pain of osteoarthritis? Recently, a landmark study demonstrated that acupuncture not only provides pain relief, but also improves function for people suffering with osteoarthritis of the knee, the most common form of the disease.
The largest-ever clinical trial of [...]
Osteoarthritis :: Acupuncture show improvements in osteoarthritis patients
Osteoarthritis (OA) has a major impact on patients’ mobility and quality of life but the anti-inflammatory drugs used to treat it are associated with a number of side effects. In recent years, patients have turned increasingly to acupuncture to relieve the chronic pain associated with OA. A new [...]
Osteoarthritis :: Acupuncture relieves pain and improves knee osteoarthritis
Acupuncture provides pain relief and improves function for people with osteoarthritis of the knee and serves as an effective complement to standard care. This landmark study was funded by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) and the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and [...]
Osteoarthritis :: Acupuncture May Ease Knee Arthritis – osteoarthritis
For people with osteoarthritis of the knee, 8 weeks of acupuncture significantly decreases pain and improves function compared with sham acupuncture or no treatment, a German study suggests.
Dr. Claudia Witt, from Charite University Medical Centre in Berlin, and her colleagues conducted a trial involving 294 patients ranging [...]
Migraine :: Acupuncture helps chronic headache or migraine sufferers
Acupuncture is a useful, cost-effective treatment for chronic headaches or migraines, U.S. and U.K. researchers have found.
In one of the largest randomized studies to assess the effectiveness of the ancient Chinese treatment, scientists found it worked better than just conventional treatments alone.
“People using acupuncture had fewer headaches, [...]
Migraine :: Acupuncture and Sham help migraines, headaches
A study found that acupuncture and a sham version of the same thing both helped reduce the frequency of migraine headaches, for reasons that are not clear, researchers said.
The findings from Technische Universitaet in Munich, Germany, seem to confirm other studies that acupuncture is a beneficial migraine treatment, [...]
Fibromyalgia :: Acupuncture significantly relieves symptoms of fibromyalgia
While no cure is known and available treatments for fibromyalgia are only partially effective, a recent Mayo Clinic study suggests that acupuncture relieves symptoms of the disorder characterized by chronic, widespread musculoskeletal pain and symptoms such as fatigue, joint stiffness and sleep disturbance.
Mayo’s study involved 50 fibromyalgia patients [...]
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