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1. Acupuncture

What Is Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)? On this page: What is complementary and alternative medicine? Are complementary medicine and alternative medicine different from each other? What is integrative medicine? What are the major types of complementary and alternative medicine? Today, acupuncture describes a family of procedures involving stimulation of anatomical points on the body by a variety of techniques. American practices of acupuncture incorporate medical traditions from China, Japan, Korea, and other countries.
URL: http://acupunctureinformation.blogspot.com/ - 48KB - 24 May 2005

2. Acupuncture: Acupuncture Info

However, promisingresults have emerged, showing efficacy of acupuncture, forexample, in adult postoperative and chemotherapy nausea andvomiting and in postoperative dental pain. There are othersituations--such as addiction, stroke rehabilitation, headache,menstrual cramps, tennis elbow, fibromyalgia,myofascial pain, osteoarthritis, low-back pain, carpal tunnelsyndrome, and asthma--in which acupuncture may be useful as anadjunct treatment or an acceptable alternative or be included ina comprehensive management program.
URL: http://acupunctureinformation.blogspot.com/?2005/05/acupuncture-info.html - 33KB - 24 May 2005

3. Is acupuncture a useful adjunct to physiotherapy for older adults with knee pain? - BioMed Central

The "Acupuncture, Physiotherapy and Exercise" ... Acupuncture is a popular non-pharmacological modality for treating musculoskeletal pain. Physiotherapists are one of the largest groups of acupuncture providers within the NHS, and they commonly use it alongside advice and exercise. Conclusive evidence of acupuncture's clinical effectiveness and its superiority over sham interventions is lacking. The Arthritis Research Campaign (arc) has funded this randomised sham-controlled trial which addresses three important questions...
URL: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2474/5/31 - 64KB - 10 Nov 2004

4. A Review of the Evidence for the Effectiveness, Safety, and Cost of Acupuncture, Massage Therapy, an

Annals Established in 1927 by the American College of Physicians Search Annals: Go Advanced search Home | Current Issue | Past Issues | Search | Collections | PDA Services | Subscribe | Contact Us | Help | ACP Online Article Table of...
URL: http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/138/11/898 - 64KB - 03 Nov 2004

5. Complementary and alternative medical therapies for chronic low back pain: What treatments are patients willing to try?- BioMed Central

Although back pain is the most common reason patients use complementary and alternative medical (CAM) therapies, little is known about the willingness of primary care back pain patients to try these therapies. As part of an effort to refine recruitment strategies for clinical trials, we sought to determine if back pain patients are willing to try acupuncture, chiropractic, massage, meditation, and t'ai chi and to learn about their knowledge of, experience with, and perceptions about each of these therapies...
URL: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6882/4/9 - 64KB - 10 Nov 2004

6. Alternative Medicine: Complementary and alternative medical therapies for chronic low back pain: Wha

Back pain is one of the most common and costly health problems in developed countries, where more than half of adults suffer from this condition each year... Patients with back pain are often dissatisfied with standard medical care, especially in comparison to care provided by alternative providers. In fact, back/neck pain is the number one condition for which Americans seek complementary or alternative medical (CAM) care. During 1997, 30% of Americans with back problems visited CAM practitioners, especially chiropractors and massage therapists, for this condition and another 18% used CAM self-care [7]. Yet, to date, few of these therapies have been adequately evaluated for effectiveness...
URL: http://alternative-therapy.blogspot.com/?2005/05/complementary-and-alternative-medical.html - 47KB - 31 May 2005

7. Skin Biophysics: The Biophysical Properties of the Transdermal Measurement

The skin is the body's largest organ made up of a complex mosaic of three layers, the epidermis, dermis and subdermis... The skin provides a number of vital functions including protection, interaction with the environment, production of hormones (vitamin D), movement of electrical forces, and homeostasis... most all internal disturbances also affect the skin by topographical electric changes and patterns on micropoints in the skin... The Physical Basis of the Acupuncture Points... Langer's lines, or cleavage lines,... orientation of the subcutaneous connective tissue (collagen) fibers of the dermis... Voigt's lines or Futcher's line are a dorso-ventral line of pigmentation occurring...
URL: http://www.electrodermology.com/biophysprop.htm - 113KB - 18 Jun 2004

8. The Physician and Sportsmedicine: Alternative Sports Medicine

The Physician and Sportsmedicine Menubar Home Journal Personal Health Resource Center CME Advertiser Services About Us Alternative Sports Medicine Jacqueline White THE PHYSICIAN AND SPORTSMEDICINE - VOL 26 - NO. 6 - JUNE 98 Many active patients and athletes use alternative medical therapies when conventional medicine fails to relieve their musculoskeletal symptoms. Research is expanding, and medical organizations and schools, insurers, and...
URL: http://www.physsportsmed.com/issues/1998/06jun/white.htm - 26KB - 04 Nov 2004

9. The Reflexological Properties of the Transdermal Measurement - Electrodermology White Paper part II - Int. Society of Electrodermologists, Electroacupuncture, Elec

Electrodermology asserts that the skin is a rich mosaic, anatomically and neurologically. Most all internal disturbances also affect the skin by topographical electric changes and patterns on micropoints in the skin... Efferent nerves in the dermis ramify around blood vessels, cutaneous muscle fibres and the bases of sudorific glands. Afferent nerves usually branch to supply a limited area of the skin, or in one type of ending, the Pacinian corpuscle... present chiefly in the deeper layers of the skin, and in the superficial fascia where they are particularly prominent in the flexor surfaces of the digits... In hairless skin there are also numerous complex corpuscles, the endings of Meissner [tactile corpuscles], which are situated chiefly within the dermal papillae... Dr. Alfons Cornelius observed pressure to certain spots triggered muscle contractions, changes in Blood pressure, variation in warmth and moisture in the body as well as directly affecting the 'physic processes', or mental state of the patient. The Russians, beginning with Drs Ivan Pavlov and Vladimir Bekhterev, have also been exploring reflex responses in the body for nearly a century...
URL: http://www.electrodermology.com/reflexo-prop.htm - 74KB - 12 Jan 2004

10. Procedures - Massage section - Time-to-Run - massage information for athletes

Your on-line running information magazine relating to everything in the world of running. Articles from nutrionists, physiotherapists, coaches, sports doctors, exercise physiologists, massuers and much more.
URL: http://www.time-to-run.com/massage/procedures.htm - 35KB - 18 Jun 2004

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