Integrative Acupuncture

Some high quality studies supporting the efficacy of acupuncture therapy

• A recent high quality study confirming acupuncture’s efficacy for low back pain
  www.medpagetoday.com

• A positive randomized trial of acupuncture for lowering blood pressure
  circ.ahajournals.org

• A positive randomized study testing acupuncture for chronic neck pain
  www.bmj.com

• A positive randomized trial of acupuncture for tension headache
  www.bmj.com

• Acupuncture shown to be highly cost-effective for chronic headache in real world primary care
  www.bmj.com

• American College Of Chest Physicians recommends acupuncture for patients experiencing fatigue, shortness of breath and chemo-induced neuropathy during chemotherapy
  www.chestnet.org

• A Spanish study supporting the efficacy of acupuncture in arthritic knee pain
  www.webmd.com/osteoarthritis

• Acupuncture effective for fibromyalgia from the Mayo Clinic
  www.medicalnewstoday.com

• Acupuncture in the oncology clinic
  pmj.sagepub.com

• Acupuncture reduces post-operative symptoms - from American Society of Anesthesiologists meeting
  www.medpagetoday.com

• Yun Tao Ma’s articles outlining the historical and neurological basis for his development of biomedical acupuncture
  www.biomedacupuncture.com

• D.E.Kendall’s critique of the “Energy-Meridian” Theory
  www.pacificcollege.edu

• Discussion of the positive effects of “real” acupuncture compared to sham acupuncture including the therapeutic effect of light touch
  www.acupunctureinmedicine.org.uk

• A blinded study showing lack of correspondence between body maps on the ear and actual areas of musculoskeletal pain in a group of patients
  www.acupunctureinmedicine.org.uk

• Sources of scientific acupuncture information
  www.medical-acupuncture.co.uk
  


• The Acupuncture In Medicine Journal
  www.medical-acupuncture.co.uk/aimintro.htm
  
  
• Ben Kavoussi
  Kavoussi clearly demonstrates that the theories of Chinese Medicine are not unique, and can be found in pre-modern western medicine and other medical systems. Scholars such as Paul Unschuld and Paul Buell have suggested that Chinese medicine may have arisen from these other medical systems.
  ecam.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/nem005v1
  
  An outline of the Neuroimmune Basis of Anti-inflammatory Acupuncture
  ict.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/6/3/251
  
  
  
• Steven Stumpf
  Currently no consensus for doctoral standards in the acupuncture profession
  stevenstumpf.com/2008/02/
  
  Unemployment and under-employment is extensive amongst acupuncture school graduates, and a proposed solution involves brief retraining to fill the need for primary care practitioners.
  http://stevenstumpf.com/2008/08/the_view_from_the_other_side.html
  
  
  
• A study demonstrating the unreliability of acupuncture studies done in Asian and other countries.
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9551280
  
  
  
• Dr. Felix Mann
  The founder of Scientific Acupuncture
  His book: Reinventing Acupuncture
  
  
  
• Dr. Anthony Campbell’s articles on his approach to scientific acupuncture
  www.acampbell.ukfsn.org/acupuncture
  
  
• My article and website looking at some of the background leading to the need for a post-traditional acupuncture
  

• The China Project was a survey of death rates for twelve different kinds of cancers in more than 2,400 counties and 880 million (96%) of their citizens conducted jointly by Cornell University, Oxford University and the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine over the course of twenty years. It was the largest diet and population study ever done and showed the diseases of affluence (cancer, heart disease and diabetes) increasing directly in relation to the increase in consumption of animal protein.
  wikipedia.org/wiki/The_China_Study

• The Okinawan diet
  wellnessletter.com

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