Medical AcupuncturePub Date : 2024-08-21eCollection Date: 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1089/acu.2024.0093
Richard C Niemtzow
{"title":"ACUPUNCTURE: Shadows of Doubt.","authors":"Richard C Niemtzow","doi":"10.1089/acu.2024.0093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/acu.2024.0093","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45511,"journal":{"name":"Medical Acupuncture","volume":"36 4","pages":"171-172"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11411273/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142298177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medical AcupuncturePub Date : 2024-08-21eCollection Date: 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1089/acu.2024.0088
Simon Hayhoe
{"title":"How Do You Treat Groin Pain in the Adult Patient in Your Practice?","authors":"Simon Hayhoe","doi":"10.1089/acu.2024.0088","DOIUrl":"10.1089/acu.2024.0088","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45511,"journal":{"name":"Medical Acupuncture","volume":"36 4","pages":"241-242"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11411275/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142298180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medical AcupuncturePub Date : 2024-08-21eCollection Date: 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1089/acu.2024.0076
Md Felipe Abreu Márquez
{"title":"How You Treat Groin Pain in the Adult Patient with Acupuncture and/or Chinese Herbs.","authors":"Md Felipe Abreu Márquez","doi":"10.1089/acu.2024.0076","DOIUrl":"10.1089/acu.2024.0076","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45511,"journal":{"name":"Medical Acupuncture","volume":"36 4","pages":"247-248"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11411271/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142298181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medical AcupuncturePub Date : 2024-08-21eCollection Date: 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1089/acu.2023.0083
Balgis, Selfi Handayani, Nanang Wiyono
{"title":"Electroacupuncture for Pain Therapy: A Bibliometric Analysis and Content Review Update for 1 Decade (2013-2022).","authors":"Balgis, Selfi Handayani, Nanang Wiyono","doi":"10.1089/acu.2023.0083","DOIUrl":"10.1089/acu.2023.0083","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Each year, pain imposes significant economic and social burdens, such as increased physician visits, analgesic use, and decreased productivity. Electroacupuncture (EA) was first used in China and is a potential addition to existing pain-relief approaches. Globally and exponentially, the number of fundamental and clinical studies on EA has increased over the past decade. Most bibliometric studies in this area focus on acupuncture therapy. A prevalent quantitative and qualitative approach, bibliometric analysis scrutinizes published scholarly articles and can be used to assess advancements in specific research domains. Yet, to the best of the current authors' knowledge, no specific bibliometric analysis of EA as a pain therapy has yet been conducted.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Article data were taken from the Scopus<sup>®</sup> database with the key words electroacupuncture or electro-acupuncture or electric acupuncture and pain. The timeframe was set between 2013 and 2022 in all forms, regardless of language barriers, resulting in a total of 1592 documents. The results of the data search were then analyzed with bibliometrics and VOSviewer.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>This study showed the rapid growth in the study of EA in the last decade. Additionally, <i>Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine</i> is a major journal that frequently publishes articles on EA.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Despite China's substantial publication output on EA, international collaboration is limited, particularly among nations other than the United States and China.</p>","PeriodicalId":45511,"journal":{"name":"Medical Acupuncture","volume":"36 4","pages":"189-202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11632150/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142819745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medical AcupuncturePub Date : 2024-06-21eCollection Date: 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1089/acu.2024.0047
Jennifer Stone
{"title":"Exposing Medical Students to Acupuncture in Indiana.","authors":"Jennifer Stone","doi":"10.1089/acu.2024.0047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/acu.2024.0047","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45511,"journal":{"name":"Medical Acupuncture","volume":"36 3","pages":"123-124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11304745/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141907962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medical AcupuncturePub Date : 2024-04-01Epub Date: 2024-04-11DOI: 10.1089/acu.2023.0066
Mustafa Hüseyin Temel, Fatih Bağcıer
{"title":"<i>Letter to the Editor:</i> Role of the Piriformis Muscle in Pelvic Pain: Beyond the \"Sciatica Muscle\".","authors":"Mustafa Hüseyin Temel, Fatih Bağcıer","doi":"10.1089/acu.2023.0066","DOIUrl":"10.1089/acu.2023.0066","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45511,"journal":{"name":"Medical Acupuncture","volume":"36 2","pages":"116-117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11036155/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140868483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medical AcupuncturePub Date : 2024-02-01Epub Date: 2024-02-13DOI: 10.1089/acu.2023.0009
Clasina Leslie Smith, Maria Mulcahy
{"title":"The Impact of Inpatient Acupuncture on a Mixed Hospital Floor: A Pragmatic 3-Month Cost-Effectiveness Retrospective Evaluation.","authors":"Clasina Leslie Smith, Maria Mulcahy","doi":"10.1089/acu.2023.0009","DOIUrl":"10.1089/acu.2023.0009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Viability of inpatient acupuncture is limited by current hospital reimbursement structuring. Research has primarily focused on length of stay (LOS) instead of cost of stay (COS). This study evaluated acupuncture as an option for inpatient pain control, determined if acupuncture influenced patient satisfaction during hospitalization, and examined any effects on LOS and COS.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>In a quasiexperimental pilot research study, acupuncture was offered free of charge for 3 months on a single floor of an urban medical center. Pre- and postintervention scores, number of treatments, and diagnosis related groups (DRGs) of patients receiving acupuncture were tracked and then compared to a nonintervention, DRGs-matched group with overlapping hospital-floor and admission dates. LOS, COS, and patient satisfaction scores during the months of intervention were compared to the months before and after the intervention.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Patients' pain significantly decreased each time they were treated. Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems scores increased to 85, 99, and 97 during the months of intervention and then returned to the lower, preacupuncture levels after acupuncture was no longer available. LOS was higher in the intervention group (+7.8 days), but acupuncture saved the hospital an anticipated $125,770 in the projected COS during that 3-month time alone.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Acupuncture was a potent pain-relief alternative for hospitalized patients, providing more satisfaction. Acupuncture resulted in longer LOS, but the aggregate COS was 86% less than expected. Acupuncture may be a financially viable, clinically impactful adjunct to hospital care.</p>","PeriodicalId":45511,"journal":{"name":"Medical Acupuncture","volume":"36 1","pages":"27-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10874818/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139913732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adjunct Acupuncture Improved Respiratory Status and Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation After Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia.","authors":"Jun Matsumoto-Miyazaki, Hideshi Okada, Tomotaka Miura, Keisuke Kumada, Genki Naruse, Nagisa Miyazaki, Kodai Suzuki, Shozo Yoshida, Shinji Ogura, Hiroyuki Okura","doi":"10.1089/acu.2023.0064","DOIUrl":"10.1089/acu.2023.0064","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>A patient with severe COVID-19 pneumonia had adjunctive acupuncture to improve respiration and facilitate weaning off prolonged mechanical ventilation (MV).</p><p><strong>Case: </strong>A man in his 40s with COVID-19 was in an advanced critical-care center on symptom day 5 for respiratory failure due to pneumonia requiring MV therapy. He received high-dose corticosteroid pulse therapy, antiviral agents, and multiple antibiotics for complicated bacterial pneumonia and bacteremia. Repeated MV weaning attempts failed, although his pneumonia gradually improved. Then, acupuncture 4 times per week was started to improve his respiration and facilitate MV weaning from day 49 of his symptoms' onset.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>His weaning-related indices improved, including reductions in respiratory rate and Rapid Shallow Breath Index. His O<sub>2</sub> saturation increased immediately after each acupuncture treatment. The day after the first acupuncture treatment, his MV support was reduced by changing ventilation mode from synchronized intermittent mandatory ventilation mode to continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) mode during the day without exacerbation of respiratory status. After 3 days of acupuncture, this patient was on CPAP support alone. MV therapy was discontinued completely after 8 days of acupuncture (6th acupuncture treatment).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Acupuncture improved respiration and facilitated MV weaning in a patient with respiratory failure secondary to COVID-19. Adjunctive acupuncture may benefit such patients and others after severe pneumonia. Large cohort studies are needed.</p>","PeriodicalId":45511,"journal":{"name":"Medical Acupuncture","volume":"36 1","pages":"45-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10874821/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139913731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}