Acupuncture Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Acupuncture, including details on alternative medicine, uses, benefits, treatment, chinese medicine.

Volume 8 (2011), Issue 6 (June)

1. Electroacupuncture for residual insomnia associated with major depressive disorder: a randomized controlled trial.
   Sleep, 34(6): 807-15. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Complementary and alternative medicine: perception and use by physiotherapists in the management of low back pain.
   Complement Ther Med, 19(3): 149-54. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Acupuncture for low back pain: a survey of clinical practice in the UK.
   Complement Ther Med, 19(3): 144-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Use of Chinese medicine by women with breast cancer: a nationwide cross-sectional study in Taiwan.
   Complement Ther Med, 19(3): 137-43. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Pain reduction of acupoint electrical stimulation for patients with spinal surgery: a placebo-controlled study.
   Int J Nurs Stud, 48(6): 703-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. The search for pain relief in people with chronic fatigue syndrome: a descriptive study.
   Physiother Theory Pract, 27(5): 373-83. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Cardiac tamponade caused by acupuncture: a review of the literature.
   Int J Cardiol, 149(3): 287-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Lifestyle and self-care advice within traditional acupuncture consultations: a qualitative observational study nested in a co-operative inquiry.
   J Altern Complement Med, 17(6): 519-29. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Heat stimulation on the skin for medical treatment: can it be controlled?
   J Altern Complement Med, 17(6): 497-504. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Effects of traditional Japanese massage therapy on gene expression: preliminary study.
    J Altern Complement Med, 17(6): 553-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Three-armed trials including placebo and no-treatment groups may be subject to publication bias: systematic review.
    PLoS One, 6(5): e20679. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Post herpetic neuralgia.
    J Palliat Med, 14(6): 765-73. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Acupuncture attenuates exercise-induced increases in skin sympathetic nerve activity.
    Auton Neurosci, 162(1): 84-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Electroacupuncture counteracts the development of thermal hyperalgesia and the alteration of nerve growth factor and sensory neuromodulators induced by streptozotocin in adult rats.
    Diabetologia, 54(7): 1900-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Patient characteristics and variation in treatment outcomes: which patients benefit most from acupuncture for chronic pain?
    Clin J Pain, 27(6): 550-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Effect of acupoint Sanyinjiao (SP6) moxibustion on the first stage of labor and uterine contractive pain in primiparae.
    Chin J Integr Med, 17(6): 464-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Review on efficacy and health services research studies of complementary and alternative medicine in inflammatory bowel disease.
    Chin J Integr Med, 17(6): 403-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Acupuncture for premenstrual syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.
    BJOG, 118(8): 899-915. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Immediate effect of electric point stimulation (TENS) in treating latent upper trapezius trigger points: a double blind randomised placebo-controlled trial.
    J Bodyw Mov Ther, 15(3): 348-54. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Acupuncture-like stimulation at auricular point Heart evokes cardiovascular inhibition via activating the cardiac-related neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarius.
    Brain Res, 1397: 19-27. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Quality assessment of reporting of randomization, allocation concealment, and blinding in traditional Chinese medicine RCTs: a review of 3159 RCTs identified from 260 systematic reviews.
    Trials, 12: 122. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Forging convictions: the effects of active participation in a clinical trial.
    Soc Sci Med, 72(12): 2041-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. The fundamental theory of traditional Chinese medicine and the consideration in its research strategy.
    Front Med, 5(2): 208-11. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Mechanism of acupuncture regulating visceral sensation and mobility.
    Front Med, 5(2): 151-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Acupuncture-related techniques for the treatment of opiate addiction: a case of translational medicine.
    Front Med, 5(2): 141-50. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Clinical acupuncture research in the West.
    Front Med, 5(2): 134-40. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Practices, challenges, and opportunities: HIV/AIDS treatment with traditional Chinese medicine in China.
    Front Med, 5(2): 123-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. Patients whose GP knows complementary medicine tend to have lower costs and live longer.
    Eur J Health Econ. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. Electroacupuncture analgesia, stress responses, and variations in sensitivity in rats anesthetized with different sub-MAC anesthetics.
    Eur J Pain, 15(6): 600-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. Investigation of acupoint specificity by multivariate granger causality analysis from functional MRI data.
    J Magn Reson Imaging, 34(1): 31-42. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. The relationship of subjective sleep quality and cardiac autonomic nervous system in postmenopausal women with insomnia under auricular acupressure.
    Menopause, 18(6): 638-45. [Abstract] [Full-text]
32. Depression in postmenopause: a study on a subsample of the Acupuncture on Hot Flushes Among Menopausal Women (ACUFLASH) study.
    Menopause, 18(5): 525-30. [Abstract] [Full-text]
33. Correlations between fasciology and yin yang doctrine.
    J Acupunct Meridian Stud, 4(2): 141-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
34. Comparison of electroacupuncture frequency-related effects on heart rate variability in healthy volunteers: a randomized clinical trial.
    J Acupunct Meridian Stud, 4(2): 107-15. [Abstract] [Full-text]
35. Expression of keratin 10 in rat organ surface primo-vascular tissues.
    J Acupunct Meridian Stud, 4(2): 102-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
36. Effectiveness of interventions for secondary Raynaud's phenomenon: a systematic review.
    Arch Phys Med Rehabil, 92(7): 1166-80. [Abstract] [Full-text]
37. Selecting a control for in vitro fertilization and acupuncture randomized controlled trials (RCTs): how sham controls may unnecessarily complicate the RCT evidence base.
    Fertil Steril, 95(8): 2456-61. [Abstract] [Full-text]
38. The physiological basis of complementary and alternative medicines for polycystic ovary syndrome.
    Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab, 301(1): E1-E10. [Abstract] [Full-text]
39. Moxibustion for rheumatic conditions: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
    Clin Rheumatol, 30(7): 937-45. [Abstract] [Full-text]
40. Acupuncture for the treatment of severe acute pain in herpes zoster: results of a nested, open-label, randomized trial in the VZV Pain Study.
    BMC Complement Altern Med, 11: 46. [Abstract] [Full-text]
41. Classification of CAM use and its correlates in patients with early-stage breast cancer.
    Integr Cancer Ther, 10(2): 138-47. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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