Acupuncture Continuing Education

Day: January 6, 2008

Acupuncture as effective for migraines as drugs

An important study on acupuncture for the treatment of migraine headaches concludes that acupuncture is “of comparable efficiency to several proven drug therapies for the treatment and prevention of migraine.”  The treatment of migraines, a disabling and often severely painful form of headache, was researched across 25 randomised controlled trials involving 3,004 patients.    Acupuncture was […]

Acupuncture for Labor Pain

Labor pain has been treated with Chinese Medicine for over a thousand years and now receives attention by modern researchers.   A recent study (Smith C, Collins CT, Crowther C. Acupuncture and acupressure for pain management in labour: a systematic review. ‘Aust J Acupunct Chin Med’ 2007;2(1):25-32)  concludes that “ Acupuncture may be beneficial for the […]