Revista Internacional de Acupuntura最新文献

Low back pain is a painful syndrome located between the lower edge of the last ribs and lower to the fold of the buttocks compromising neuromusculoskeletal structures, causing functional limitation.

A case study is presented in a female patient which addresses the application of comprehensive treatment with acupuncture on VB 34 Yanglingquan and V 60 Kun Lun and the neurodynamic technique on symptoms in low back pain caused by “home office” derived from confinement by SARS-CoV-2.

After 8 sessions and frequency of 2 times a week of treatment with acupuncture needles with twisting and body of stainless-steel medical grade, with manual application inserting perpendicularly, manipulating with trepidation technique and performing neurodynamics in an active-assisted way, evaluated with PainDetect scale 2/38 points. Oswestry's low back disability scala obtained minimal disability.

This review summaries the available research on nuclear magnetic resonance to show the Auriculotherapy (AA) effect in human brains. Through search and analysis of clinical research in the PubMed/MEDLINE database, available related articles up to January 2023 were used only in English. This overview is not comprehensive and is due to be predominantly informative. A total of 4 trials met our inclusion criteria and were included in the quality analysis. Electrical stimulations were more frequent (3 studies) than needles (1 study). The above research delivers insufficient evidence that the AA at different points led to other brain structures' modulation. Although, the brain structures activated by the AA seems to overlap territories belonging to the anxiety's neurobiology. The endeavor to link the AA mechanisms to the cranial nerves combined with an embryological approach is promising. Nevertheless, additional studies with imaging, different AA techniques, and auricular points are necessary to provide evidence for this effect on mental health.

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental illness triggered by a horrific event that one has either experienced or witnessed. People with PTSD are more likely to suffer from chronic pain than people who have not experienced trauma. The pain associated with PTSD may be caused by changes in the way the body processes pain signals. Auricular chromotherapy is a new treatment method that combines auriculotherapy, chromotherapy, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) techniques. The purpose of this study was to report on four cases of chronic pain that were successfully treated with auricular chromotherapy.

Four patients with chronic pain were selected for this study. Auricular chromotherapy sessions were performed on each patient three times at one-week intervals. After the third session, a three-month follow-up was performed. After the treatments, all four patients reported that their pain had disappeared without any side effects.

These case reports suggest that auricular chromotherapy may be effective in treating chronic pain due to PTSD. Further preclinical and clinical studies are needed to investigate the mechanism of action of auricular chromotherapy in the treatment of pain.

This study aimed to characterize the scientific production of acupuncture worldwide and in Mexico. A descriptive and retrospective bibliometric analysis of the articles published worldwide on acupuncture in 2012–2022 and the articles published by researchers in Mexico without time restriction was carried out. The types of articles, the pattern of authorship, country, publication journals, impact and collaboration networks were analyzed. The Web of Science and PubMed databases were used to search the records. Also, we used the VOSviewer program and the R Bibliometrix package to assess the bibliometric analysis. The results showed that acupuncture research topics have changed in the last decade, and cell biology and genetics studies are trending. There is an evident growth in the production of literature in the area worldwide. In Mexico, acupuncture research groups exist in consolidated educational and research institutions such as UNAM, UAM, and IPN; however, there is no evidence of collaboration between them.

The search for pregnancy in the society tends to be postponed, due to multiple factors such as personal, work, and ideological aspirations, which tend to postpone the search for pregnancy until reproductively advanced ages, which are technically no longer the most appropriate and even compatible with fertility. In this group of patients, assisted reproductive techniques such as in vitro fertilization, intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), egg and / or embryo donation become the most viable alternatives to achieve this purpose. In this case report, acupuncture and electroacupuncture were applied considering geometric patterns obtained through a 1 cun × 1 cun matrix with Zhongji (RM 3) as the central point, and 4 adjacent points and extra points in a patient under an embryo donation program for pregnancy. Acupuncture improved blood perfusion as evidenced by the pulsation rate of the uterine arteries measured by real-time Doppler flowmetry, estradiol levels as well as consequent quality of the endometrium, making it more receivable for endometrial implantation.

This article presents, visually and graphically, the results published on the conditions for which acupuncture has different levels of evidence for being a therapeutic option, according to the health technology assessment agencies that make up the REDETS (Red Española de Agencias de Evaluación de Tecnologías Sanitarias y Prestaciones del Sistema Nacional de Salud), international organizations and societies with expertise in acupuncture. The degree of evidence has been classified into 4 levels, unifying the different levels used in the work of the different organizations, and almost 300 references to systematic reviews extracted from the PubMed database have been added.

According to the World Health Organization, musculoskeletal disorders are the first reason for disability worldwide, noting that the main causes of lumbar incidents are: mechanical and non-mechanical. Electroacupuncture has been used as a treatment for pain relief, the case of a 50-year-old female patient with a diagnosis of mechanopostural low back pain treated with electroacupuncture and single-phase fixed current at points V 51 Huangming and V 53 Baohuang for 10 min in 8 sessions, evaluating the effect of said treatment using the painDETECT and Oswestry scales.

Introduction | objectives

Diabetes is deemed to be a main health problem globally, and this metabolic disorder has numerous causes. which is described as a chronic excess of glucose in the bloodstream with upsets of carbohydrate, fat, and protein metabolism resulting from a fault in insulin secretion, action, or both of them.

Methods

In order to investigate acupuncture's effect on glucose levels, 40 wistar rats were used in the current study and divided into four groups: negative control, dexamethasone with fat, dexamethasone with fat combined with acupuncture, and acupuncture only treated rats. The acupuncture was done once weekly for an 8-week period at ST-36, SP-6, and ear shenmen acupuncture points.

Results

In groups 2 and 3, rats' weights were elevated due to dexamethasone and fat administration and a significant increase in glucose levels in comparison with the control group. Additionally, fat deposition was obvious on macroscopic examination. The most important result of the current study was that the glucose levels in the group treated with dexamethasone and fat combined with acupuncture were significantly lower than those in the group treated with dexamethasone and fat only without acupuncture.

Conclusions

Although the acupuncture using ST-36, SP-6, and ear shenmen may moderately reduce glucose levels, future studies using other point combinations or stimulation methods are needed to gain better effects.

Ischemic stroke (cerebrovascular disease) manifests itself as one of the main causes of disability in adults worldwide, producing transient or permanent sequelae, mainly neurological and motor. We present the case of a 56-year-old female patient with type 2 diabetes mellitus, who has ischemic stroke sequelae with motor and neurological alterations. After 10 treatment sessions with Jiao Shunfa craniopuncture and propioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) diagonals of the upper and lower limb, a favorable evolution was obtained in the lower limbs with decreased spasticity, increased coordination, muscle strength and mobility.