Conclusion:
ED (emergency department) acupuncture is feasible and acceptable and
can reduce acute musculoskeletal pain better than UC (usual care) alone.
[Ann. Emerg Med. 2024;84:337-350.]
An Adaptive Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial of Emergency Department Acupuncture for Acute Musculoskeletal Pain Management
https://www.annemergmed.com/article/S0196-0644(24)00161-6/pdf
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38795078/
Trial Shows Acupuncture is Feasible for Reducing Pain in the Emergency Department
https://medschool.duke.edu/news/trial-shows-acupuncture-feasible-reducing-pain-emergency-department
Can Acupuncture Improve Chronic Spinal Pain? (2021, China)
Global Spine Journal
Conclusion:
In summary, compared to no treatment, sham acupuncture, or conventional therapy such as medication, massage, and physical exercise, acupuncture has a significantly superior effect on the reduction in chronic spinal pain and function improvement. Acupuncture might be an effective treatment for patients with chronic spinal pain and it is a safe therapy.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33034233/
Acupuncture and Spinal Stenosis: Considerations for Treatment (2022, USA)
Compared to no treatment, sham acupuncture, or usual therapy, acupuncture has a significantly superior effect on the reduction in pain and functional limitations for patients with chronic spinal pain.
Our results suggest that acupuncture is also a safe therapy.
Patients with chronic spinal pain might benefit from acupuncture therapy.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/4160/5af1c0cbfd6a2473139d899b5df73473a2f0.pdf
Acupuncture for Chronic Low Back Pain
CAG-00452N
SUBJECT: National Coverage Determination for Acupuncture for Chronic Low Back Pain
DATE: January 21, 2020
I. Decision
A. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will cover acupuncture for chronic low back pain under section 1862(a)(1)(A) of the Social Security Act. Up to 12 visits in 90 days are covered for Medicare beneficiaries under the following circumstances:
- For the purpose of this decision, chronic low back pain (cLBP) is defined as:
- Lasting 12 weeks or longer;
- nonspecific, in that it has no identifiable systemic cause (i.e., not associated with metastatic, inflammatory, infectious, etc. disease);
- not associated with surgery; and
- not associated with pregnancy.
- An additional eight sessions will be covered for those patients demonstrating an improvement. No more than 20 acupuncture treatments may be administered annually.
- Treatment must be discontinued if the patient is not improving or is regressing.
https://www.cms.gov/medicare-coverage-database/view/ncacal-decision-memo.aspx?proposed=N&NCAId=295
Acupuncture Versus Opioids for Pain Relief: An Expert Discussion
(2018, USA, France)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6345113/pdf/acu.2018.29102.rtl.pdf
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31983934/
Pins in Your Ears: How Acupuncture Can Help Relieve Your Pain (USA, 2022)
https://www.dvidshub.net/news/417279/pins-your-ears-acupuncture-can-help-relieve-your-pain
Diagosis and treatment protocol for COVID‐19 patients
(Tentative 10th Version)
(2023, China)
Released by National Health Commission of People’s Republic of China & National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine on January 5, 2023.
11.8 | Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) therapy
This disease belongs to plague in TCM, caused by epidemic pathogenic factors.
According to the different local climate characteristics and individual states of illness and physical conditions, the following treatment Protocol may vary. …
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/hcs2.36
Zhang Z. Diagnosis and treatment protocol for COVID‐19 patients (Tentative 10th Version). Health Care Sci. 2023;2:10–24.
https://doi.org/10.1002/hcs2.36
Therapeutic drug combinations against COVID-19
obtained by employing a collaborative filtering method
(2023, China)
Acupuncture activates inflammation-regulating pathways, tames cytokine storm in mice (2020, Harvard University, USA)
https://hms.harvard.edu/news/quieting-storm
Revealing the magic of acupuncture based on biological mechanisms
(2022, China)
BioScience Trends. 2022; 16(1):73-90.
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/bst/16/1/16_2022.01039/_pdf/-char/en
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35153276/
Stimulated oxygen transport in tissue by magnetic needles – Physiology of acupuncture (2022; China, Sweden; Uppsala University)
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.01.426016v2.full.pdf
An acupoint-originated human interstitial fluid circulatory network
(2021; China, Austria, Germay)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8509956/pdf/cm9-134-2365.pdf
An insight into acupoints and meridians in human body based on
interstitial fluid circulation (2020, China)
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2012/2012.13593.pdf
The Meridian is a Set of Pathways for Interstitial Fluid to Travel among Tissues (2013, Taiwan)
http://article.sapub.org/10.5923.j.health.20130302.01.html
Acupuncture impacts same biologic pathways in rats that pain drugs target in humans (2015)
Acupuncture: Its Place in the History of Chinese Medicine
(2000; British Medical Journal, UK)
https://institutpsychoneuro.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Acupuncture-in-the-History-of-Chinese-Medicine-2000.pdf
Was Acupuncture Developed by Han Dynasty Chinese Anatomists?
(2016 University of Oxford, UK)
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.23325
How Acupuncture works ? (2012, China)
The Science of Stretch (2013)
2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Nobel Prize winner Tu Youyou helped by ancient Chinese remedy (2015)
Tu Youyou on Being Awarded the Nobel Prize (2015)
Answering an Appeal by Mao Led Tu Youyou, a Chinese Scientist, to a Nobel Prize (2015)
Artemisinin—A Gift from Traditional Chinese Medicine to the World
Nobel Lecture, December 7, 2015
by Tu Youy
https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/06/tu-lecture.pdfNobel Prize winner Tu Youyou helped by ancient Chinese remedy (2015)
Artemisinin—A Gift from Traditional Chinese Medicine to the World
Nobel Lecture, December 7, 2015 by Tu Youy
https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/06/tu-lecture.pdf
An inspiration to the studies on mechanisms of acupuncture and moxibustion action derived from 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
https://journals.lww.com/ahm/Fulltext/2022/03000/An_inspiration_to_the_studies_on_mechanisms_of.1.aspx
