Laser therapy effective for acute and chronic neck pain

Posted on Dec 15, 2009

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Low-level laser therapy (LLLT) provides rapid relief of acute neck pain as well as sustained improvements in chronic neck pain, a meta-analysis has shown. Exactly how it works, though, is still a bit of a mystery. Medications have only limited efficacy in treating neck pain, a common and costly problem, Dr. Roberta T. Chow, from the University of Sydney, Australia, and colleagues note. Although a number of studies have looked at LLLT as a treatment for neck pain, its efficacy remains unclear. ...

Auricular Acupuncture helps Insomnia

Posted on Nov 16, 2009

A systematic review of current literature conducted by authors from Hong Kong has concluded that auricular acupuncture appears to be effective for treating insomnia. Eight hundred and seventy eight (878) papers were searched of which only six trials (402 people treated with AA among 673 total participants) were deemed of high enough methodological quality to meet the inclusion criteria. The recovery and improvement rates produced by AA were found to be significantly higher than those of diazepam. The efficacy of using Semen vaccariae ear...

Auriculotherapy-Terry Oleson, Ph.D.

Posted on Nov 11, 2009

Auricular acupuncture and auriculotherapy presents the most essential clinical procedures for stimulating ear reflex points for the alleviation of pain, addiction, and stress-related disorders. It will also serve as the review course of basic auriculotherapy material needed for the ACI Certification Exam. This course provides fundamental knowledge of the somatotopic correspondence of the physical body to the inverted fetus pattern represented on the external ear. The historical, theoretical, and anatomical localization of Chinese and European...

Tibetan illustration of the points of the body associed with bloodletting, moxibustion and minor surgery

Posted on Oct 31, 2009

Auricular Acupuncture for Dummies

Posted on Oct 30, 2009

A friend and I went to get some auricular acupuncture at the Ear Clinic at our school after Biology class today. For some reason, my eyes had kinda hurt so we went. OK, the real reason we went was to see what it was and it’s drop in, and we’re in the field so we figured we might as well. It was funny since about 3 min into it, my eyes did totally stop hurting. Unfortch, 1 min after they started hurting again. The point that hurt the most, meaning the area I need teh most help, was the liver yang rising point. I had kinda...