Do you think Acupunture really works or is a State of Mind?!
Question: Do you think Acupunture really works or is a State of Mind!?
ie you think it works because you feel that you are "getting treatment" for whatever it is you went there for!.
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Controversy about acupuncture's usefulness as a painkiller continues to rage!. In the past 10 years, a small but steady stream of research has suggested that certain acupuncture treatments are indeed analgesic!. But the ongoing mystery of acupuncture's mechanism of action -- and the less-than-ideal experimental designs characteristic of so many acupuncture trials--have left many Western scientists and journal reviewers skeptical!. From the range of findings reported last week:
* Joseph M!. Helms, a physician with the American Academy of Acupuncture in Berkeley, Calif!., performed acupuncture treatments on 43 women diagnosed with primary dysmenorrhea (menstrual pain)!. Some of the women received real acupuncture treatments, some received placebo acupuncture (shallow needle treatments, not at actual acupuncture points), some had monthly, nonacupuncture visits with the doctor and some were followed with no intervention!.
The women recorded "monthly pain scores" based on intensity and duration of menstrual pain during a three-month treatment period and for nine months following the cessation of treatment!. Later, researchers compared these levels to pretreatment scores, calculated by the women at the beginning of the study!. These scores described pain levels for either the month previous to treatment or from an average of the preceding six months, whichever value was highest!.
In the real acupuncture group, 10 of 11 women showed significant improvement (defined as pain scores averaging less than half the pretreatment scores)!. Four of 11 in the placebo acupuncture group showed improvement!. Of the other two nonacupuncture groups, 2 of 11 and of 10 showed improvement!.
In addition, Helms says, the real acupuncture group required 54 percent fewer pain medications during treatment and 41 percent fewer during the nine-month follow-up!. No other group showed similar reductions!.
* If acupuncture does alleviate pain, does it do so by activating the body's own opioid (painkilling) system in the brain!? J!. Ronald Lake and David H!. Malin at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, Malcolm Skolnick at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in Houston and their colleagues measured rats' responses to a standardized, mildly painful stimulus with and without acupuncture pretreatment, and with and without injection of the opioid-blocking drug, naloxone!. By using flinch responses to small electrical currents as a measure of pain thresholds, they found significant pain reduction among rats pretreated with acupuncture!. And in support of the opioid mechanism of action, they found that giving naloxone blocked the analgesic effects of acupuncture!.
* Benson Martin of the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine in Kennett Square used laser-beam acupuncture for the treatment of chronic back pain in racehorses!. Of the various means of stimulating acupuncture points in horses, Martin says, infrared laser stimulation has advantages over needles!. "Horses don't like having needles stuck in them, but they don't the laser," he says!. Martin used a 300-microwatt laser (enough to create a sense of "tingling" in human skin), treating nine acupuncture points on each horse, once a week for an average of 12 weeks!.
Before treatment, Martin says, "all 15 of these horses were unable to perform at all at an acceptable level to the owner, trainer or veterinarian!." After acupuncture, he says, performance was improved in 11 of 14 horses (one was sold and lost to follow-up), as measured by their ability to race with acceptable results!. Four of the 11 went on to win races!.
Martin concedes that such data provide no way to rule out natural healing of injuries!. But he notes that despite numerous other treatments, the horses had remained disabled for as long as four years!.
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* Joseph M!. Helms, a physician with the American Academy of Acupuncture in Berkeley, Calif!., performed acupuncture treatments on 43 women diagnosed with primary dysmenorrhea (menstrual pain)!. Some of the women received real acupuncture treatments, some received placebo acupuncture (shallow needle treatments, not at actual acupuncture points), some had monthly, nonacupuncture visits with the doctor and some were followed with no intervention!.
The women recorded "monthly pain scores" based on intensity and duration of menstrual pain during a three-month treatment period and for nine months following the cessation of treatment!. Later, researchers compared these levels to pretreatment scores, calculated by the women at the beginning of the study!. These scores described pain levels for either the month previous to treatment or from an average of the preceding six months, whichever value was highest!.
In the real acupuncture group, 10 of 11 women showed significant improvement (defined as pain scores averaging less than half the pretreatment scores)!. Four of 11 in the placebo acupuncture group showed improvement!. Of the other two nonacupuncture groups, 2 of 11 and of 10 showed improvement!.
In addition, Helms says, the real acupuncture group required 54 percent fewer pain medications during treatment and 41 percent fewer during the nine-month follow-up!. No other group showed similar reductions!.
* If acupuncture does alleviate pain, does it do so by activating the body's own opioid (painkilling) system in the brain!? J!. Ronald Lake and David H!. Malin at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, Malcolm Skolnick at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in Houston and their colleagues measured rats' responses to a standardized, mildly painful stimulus with and without acupuncture pretreatment, and with and without injection of the opioid-blocking drug, naloxone!. By using flinch responses to small electrical currents as a measure of pain thresholds, they found significant pain reduction among rats pretreated with acupuncture!. And in support of the opioid mechanism of action, they found that giving naloxone blocked the analgesic effects of acupuncture!.
* Benson Martin of the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine in Kennett Square used laser-beam acupuncture for the treatment of chronic back pain in racehorses!. Of the various means of stimulating acupuncture points in horses, Martin says, infrared laser stimulation has advantages over needles!. "Horses don't like having needles stuck in them, but they don't the laser," he says!. Martin used a 300-microwatt laser (enough to create a sense of "tingling" in human skin), treating nine acupuncture points on each horse, once a week for an average of 12 weeks!.
Before treatment, Martin says, "all 15 of these horses were unable to perform at all at an acceptable level to the owner, trainer or veterinarian!." After acupuncture, he says, performance was improved in 11 of 14 horses (one was sold and lost to follow-up), as measured by their ability to race with acceptable results!. Four of the 11 went on to win races!.
Martin concedes that such data provide no way to rule out natural healing of injuries!. But he notes that despite numerous other treatments, the horses had remained disabled for as long as four years!.
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I had Acupuncture for a problem with my leg, something to do with the sciatic (sp) nerve!. I had gone to hospital for months and the specialists couldn't find what was wrong, basically it felt like me leg was on fire when I put a sudden strain on it, like jumping etc or when the leg got tired!. My doctor decided to treat me with acupuncture, and I thought 'Oh well it can do any harm', I was and still am a sceptic!. The thing is it worked, and I haven't had the fire problem since, it still aches and hurts but no fire pains!. During the treatment I got these really weird feelings in my leg and back so I know something was happening but I don't know what!.
So Acupuncture worked for me even though I don't believe in it!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
So Acupuncture worked for me even though I don't believe in it!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Acupuncture is based on a metaphysical concept of which there is no plausible scientific rationale!. Acupuncture is a pseudoscience!. Many blind over studies have been conducted and have shown acupuncture, in clinical trials to be no more than a placebo effect!.
Most evidence has dismissed the idea of acupuncture aiding pain relief as anecdotal!. In blind over studies it was again proven to be no more beneficial than a placebo!. There are small scale studies that seem to show acupuncture aiding pain management, but it has been vastly over exaggerated and the effects were shown to be little more than a basic analgesic, this also was not fully proven!.
Pain is always a subjective experience unique to the individual!. It's always hard to measure!. With regards to the small scale studies, one also has to take into account the 'experimental effect' which is similar to the placebo!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Most evidence has dismissed the idea of acupuncture aiding pain relief as anecdotal!. In blind over studies it was again proven to be no more beneficial than a placebo!. There are small scale studies that seem to show acupuncture aiding pain management, but it has been vastly over exaggerated and the effects were shown to be little more than a basic analgesic, this also was not fully proven!.
Pain is always a subjective experience unique to the individual!. It's always hard to measure!. With regards to the small scale studies, one also has to take into account the 'experimental effect' which is similar to the placebo!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
After reading "Bad Science" by Ben Goldacre, I'm led to believe that there's really no physical effect!. He discusses research carried out which applied the placebo effect to acupuncture patients (you'll have to read the book) and there was no discernible difference between those that received the "correct" treatment and those that received the placebo!. However, the placebo effect has a lot going for it, so don't dismiss it (that's in the book as well, it really is worth reading!)Www@Answer-Health@Com
Its a very Ancient art - 300Million + Chinese cant be wrong!.
I had a few sessions a few years ago for stress and on one occasion with just 1 needle in the palm of my hand it was like someone had pulled my plug - I could feel something draining out of me at an incredible rate!. Very difficult to describe but I remember feeling incredibly calm and weak as a kitten!.
Subsequent sessions were not as intense and funds started to get tight!.
I'd like to give it another go as going to a conventional G!.P!. is a joke in that you rarely see the same one twice and they all palm you off with whatever he /she has been bribed with by the Drug Rep that week!.
Give it a go!.
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I had a few sessions a few years ago for stress and on one occasion with just 1 needle in the palm of my hand it was like someone had pulled my plug - I could feel something draining out of me at an incredible rate!. Very difficult to describe but I remember feeling incredibly calm and weak as a kitten!.
Subsequent sessions were not as intense and funds started to get tight!.
I'd like to give it another go as going to a conventional G!.P!. is a joke in that you rarely see the same one twice and they all palm you off with whatever he /she has been bribed with by the Drug Rep that week!.
Give it a go!.
Best WishesWww@Answer-Health@Com
!.!.!.even if it is just a state of mind, if you believe in it, and it works, it works!!!
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EVERYONEs gotta have something to believe in>>> think Dumbo and the magic feather, think religion, think lucky rabbits foot, lucky charm, lucky pants,!. heh heh,!. :)Www@Answer-Health@Com
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EVERYONEs gotta have something to believe in>>> think Dumbo and the magic feather, think religion, think lucky rabbits foot, lucky charm, lucky pants,!. heh heh,!. :)Www@Answer-Health@Com
I don't think that it can cure cancer but studies show that it can help with certain aspects of your health!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Did not work for me!.Www@Answer-Health@Com