At the end of treatment, patients who received acupuncture were significantly better than the control group in all measures of pain. After 6 months, the acupuncture group was significantly better than the control group in numbers of tender points, mean pressure pain threshold. Addition of acupuncture to usual treatments for fibromyalgia may be beneficial for pain and quality of life for 3 months after the end of treatment.
1: J Rehabil Med. 2008 Jul;40(7):582-8.
Fibromyalgia
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Chronic prostatitis
Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) afflicts 2%-10% of adult men. Available therapies offer little or no proven benefit.
After 10 weeks of treatment, acupuncture proved almost twice as likely as sham treatment to improve CP/CPPS symptoms. Participants receiving acupuncture were 2.4-fold more likely to experience long-term benefit than were participants receiving sham acupuncture.
Am J Med. 2008 Jan;121(1):79.e1-7.
Rhinitis
To assess quality of life and cost-effectiveness of additional acupuncture treatment for allergic rhinitis, patients were randomly allocated to 2 groups; both received usual care, but one group received an additional 10 acupuncture sessions.
Am J Epidemiol. 2009 Jan 6.
Acupuncture, supplementary to routine care, was beneficial and, according to international benchmarks, cost-effective.
Depression
Depression is one of the most common mental health disorders. Acupuncture is a popular complementary and alternative medicine intervention suggested in the treatment of depression.
The conclusion of this meta-analysis supported that acupuncture was an effective treatment that could significantly reduce the severity of disease in the patients with depression.
J Affect Disord. 2008 Dec;111(2-3):125-34.
Breach presentation
A systematic review from Holland has concluded that acupuncture interventions are effective in correcting breach presentation. The proportion of breach presentations was 28% following treatment versus 56% for the control group.
Comp Ther Med 2008 April;16(2):92-100
Acupuncture research
Neck pain
A review of ten trials has concluded that
acupuncture can relieve chronic neck pain.
Acupuncture was was also found to provide
better pain relief than massage.
Cochrane database 2006, Issue 3 no. CD004870
Chronic Back Pain
For chronic low-back pain, results show that acupuncture is more effective for pain relief than no treatment or sham treatment, in measurements taken up to three months. The results also show that for chronic low-back pain, acupuncture is more effective for improving function than no treatment.
When acupuncture is added to other conventional therapies, it relieves pain and improves function better than the conventional therapies alone.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2005,
The results of a study on acupuncture for insomnia in pregnancy suggest that acupuncture alleviates insomnia.
Acupunct Med. 2005 Jun;23(2):47-51 and
The results of a review suggest that acupuncture may be an effective intervention for the relief of insomnia.
Journal of Advanced Nursing 44(4):375-84
Insomnia