by Heaton Acupuncture | Oct 29, 2019 | Acupuncture, Fybromyalgia
Acupuncture has a comparable effect to physical therapy (PT) on pain and quality of life in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS), Turkish investigators have found. Forty-four female patients with chronic widespread musculoskeletal pain symptoms received either 15...
by Heaton Acupuncture | Aug 29, 2017 | Acupuncture, Fybromyalgia
Fibromyalgia patients who exhibit greater sensitivity to pain are more likely to respond to sham acupuncture, and more likely to experience a worsening of pain after verum acupuncture, report US researchers. A cohort of 114 fibromyalgia patients received baseline...
by Heaton Acupuncture | Jul 14, 2016 | Acupuncture, Fybromyalgia
Individualised acupuncture treatment is efficacious for pain relief and improving quality of life in patients with fibromyalgia, compared with placebo treatment. Spanish researchers randomly assigned 164 fibromyalgia patients to receive either individualised...
by Heaton Acupuncture | May 13, 2011 | Fybromyalgia, Tai Chi Chuan
Tai chi is more effective at relieving the pain and other symptoms of fibromyalgia than conventional stretching exercises, according to a randomised controlled trial carried out by American investigators. Sixty-six patients were randomly assigned to twice-weekly...
by Heaton Acupuncture | Mar 24, 2011 | Acupuncture, Chinese Herbal Medicine, Fybromyalgia
A systematic review of TCM therapies for treatment of fibromyalgia has concluded that they appear to be effective. The authors looked at twenty-five RCTs (1516 participants) of which ten were eligible for meta-analysis. Acupuncture reduced pain scores and number of...
