Evidence of Positive Effect (8 Conditions)
- Allergic rhinitis (perennial & seasonal)
- Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (cinv) (with anti-emetics)
- Chornic low back pain
- Headache (tension-type and chronic)
- Knee osteoarthritis
- Migraine prophylaxis
- Postoperative nausea & vomiting
- Postoperative pain
Acupuncture Is Not A Placebo
- Significant differences between true and sham acupuncture indicate that acupuncture is more than a placebo
Acupuncture Has Lasting Effects On Pain
- 90% of the pain-relieving benefits of acupuncture persisted 12 months after treatment
MacPherson H, Vertosick EA, Foster NE, Lewith G, Linde K, Sherman KJ, et al. The persistence of the effects of acupuncture after a course of treatment: A meta-analysis of patients with chronic pain. Pain. 2016
Acupuncture Is Effective For Chronic Pain
- Acupuncture is effective for chronic pain
US VA Evidence Map of Acupuncture (2014) found:
Acupuncture demonstrates “Evidence of positive effects” for chronic pain
Hempel S. Taylor SL, Solloway MR, Miake-Lye IM, Beroes JM, Shanman R, et al. VA. Evidence-based Synthesis Program Reports. Evidence Map of Acupuncture. Washington (DC): Department of Veterans Affairs : 2014
Vickers AJ, Cronin AM, Maschino AC, Lewith G, MacPherson H, Foster NE, et al.
Acupuncture for chronic pain: individual patient data meta-analysis. Archives of internal medicine. 2012;172(19):1444-53.
Acupuncture Is Effective For Acute Pain
- Labour pain
- Ocyte retrieval pain
- Primary dysmenorrhoea
- Tension-type headaches
- Migraine
- Postoperative pain
- Back pain
- Acute burns pain
Schug SA, Palmer GM, Scott DA, Halliwell R, Trinca J. Acute pain management: scientific evidence, fourth edition, 2015. The Medical Journal of Australia. 2016;204(8):315-7.
Acupuncture for acute pain in Emergency Departments
- Higher success rate than morphine (92% vs 78%)
- Shorter resolution time (16+8 minutes vs 28+14 minutes)
- Fewer minor adverse events (4 vs 85)
Grissa MH, Baccouche H, Boubaker H, Beltaief K, Bzeouich N, Fredj N, et al. Acupuncture vs intravenous morphine in the management of acute pain in the ED. The American journal of emergency medicine. 2016;34(11):2112-6.
Multicentre randomised trial in four Melbourne hospitals (acupuncture vs pharmacotherapy vs acupuncture plus pharmacotherapy) for lower back pain, ankle sprain and migraine found:
- Acupuncture was found to be a safe and acceptable treatment and comparable (equivalent and non-inferior) to pharmacotherapy in analgesia
Cohen MM, Smit, De Villiers, Adrianopoulos, Nick, Ben-Meir, Taylor, David McD, Parker, SHefton, J, Xue, Charlie C, Cameron, Peter A. Acupuncture for analgesia in the emergency department: a multicentre, randomised, equivalence and non-inferiority trial. Medical Journal of Australia. 2017;206(11):494-9
Acupuncture Is Often Superior To Ususal Care In Treating Both Acute And Chronic Pain
- Acupuncture is more effective than both usual care and sham acupuncture for chronic pain based on the most robust evidence from high-quality trials of acupuncture for chronic pain.
MacPherson H, Vickers A, Bland M, Torgerson D, Corbett M, Spackman E, et al. Programme Grants for Applied Research. Acupuncture for chronic pain and depression in primary care: a programme of research. Southhamptom (UK): NIHR Journals Library
Anti-Inflammatory Effects Of Acupuncture
- Acupuncture has an anti-histamine action
Antihistamines (Zyrtec, Claratyne, Telfast)
- Acupuncture has also been found to suppress the expression of cyclooxygenase 1 & 2 (COX-1 & COX-2) and inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS)
COX-2 inhibitors (Mobic, Viox, Celebrex)
- Acupuncture down-regulates pro-inflammatory neuropeptides:
- Substance P (SP) (allergic rhinitis, allergic asthma, irritable bowel syndrome)
- Calcitonin Gene-related Peptide (CGRP) (menopausal hot flushes, migraine)
- Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide (VIP) (allergic rhinitis, irritable bowel syndrome)
- Acupuncture’s effects on inflammatory oedema are mediated via the HPA (hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal) axis and appear to use different pathways to those for acupuncture analgesic effects
Prednisone
- EA stimulation of vagus nerve and sciatic nerve activates Dopamine receptor D1, exerting powerful anti-inflammatory effects (Torres-Rosas et al, 2014)
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