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Acupuncture banishes hay-fever
More and more people suffer from so-called pollen allergies and really would like to flee to regions where these trees and bushes do not exist. But as this is seldom possible, allergy sufferers must find relief in other ways. Meanwhile therapies get better and better. As well as a [...]
Prevention by needle: supplanting Headaches
Patients who suffer regularly from headaches, can expect an improvement in their symptoms from acupuncture sessions. The usefulness of this method has now been proven in a important clinical study: the treatment with needles was so effective that the patients suffered headaches less frequently, needed less medication [...]
Children cope well with Acupuncture
Boston (Rö). A study by Dr. Yuan-Chi Lin at the children’s hospital in Boston Massachusetts confirms that the fears of children in pain, who have acupuncture, dwindle with the therapy. Lin examined 75 children who because of their pain were given acupuncture. Before the first needle-prick 53 [...]
Acupuncture: WHO – a positive judgement
In a recent article the World Health Organisation (WHO) gave acupuncture a good report in many instances. The effectiveness of the method for lumbago or neck pain was well substantiated in controlled studies, the analgesia in the majority of types of pain better than with Placebos. In the report [...]
Well-founded arguments
The DAK (German General Medical Insurance) covers with immediate effect the costs of acupuncture for pregnancy problems administered by specially qualified doctors.
This method of therapy is a sensible alternative to medication in pregnancy care. In the eyes of Helmut Rüdinger – Vice-president of the German Medical Council [...]
Experiences with Acupuncture
http://www.sl-acupuncture.co.uk/?p=39Interview with Dr. Helmut Rüdinger, Vice-president of the German Medical Council for Acupuncture:
What are the advantages of acupuncture over conventional medicine in the treatment of pain?
Dr. Rüdinger: The direct relief from pain and inflammation has a positive effect on the psyche: Acupuncture calms and relaxes. Thereby many [...]
Acupuncture against Enuresis nocturna.
15 -20% of five year olds, 5% of 10 year olds and 2 to 3% of all young people wet the bed at least once a month. Usually treatment is in the form of behavioural therapy and drugs. But acupuncture is also used.
In a Turkish study the effectiveness of [...]
Patients’ response to acupuncture enormous.
Around 26,000 inhabitants of Baden-Wurttemberg have benefited from the pilot projects of several health insurance companies during the last two years.
Stuttgart (mm). Around 8,000 patients during the last two years – since the start of the pilot project of the TK – Technicians’ Insurance Company – have undergone acupuncture treatment for chronic pain of the [...]
With Acupuncture…
…US doctors want to improve the quality of life for gravely ill patients with a colo-rectal carcinoma. According to the University of Pittsburgh medical centre, more than 100 patients with metastatic colo-rectal carcinomas will take part in the study.
Source: ÄZ Nr. 43 2003
Backache pricked away
Düsseldorf – special acupuncture, combined with conventional-orthopaedic measures, improves the treatment of chronic back pain (Pain 99, 2002, 587-597).
This has been discovered by Orthopaedist Albrecht F. Molsburger together with researchers at the UNI Düsseldorf. 186 patients took part in “the most thorough study of this kind up to now”. “From [...]
