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Thermography by Specialty
Published in James Stewart Campbell, M. Nathaniel Mead, Human Medical Thermography, 2023
James Stewart Campbell, M. Nathaniel Mead
Acupuncture involves inserting thin, solid needles into the skin to various depths at defined locations (acupuncture points) to treat disease. Twisting, vibrating, heating, or electrically stimulating the needles is said to induce certain effects. Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), which uses flat dermal electrodes, is a western therapeutic system based on the acupuncture points. In TENS, specific effects are purportedly produced by varying the stimulation current levels and frequencies applied to the electrodes. Thermography has been studied as an objective way to assess the point locations and effects of acupuncture-type therapies, with some thermographers claiming that the acupuncture meridians (lines connecting families of points) are visible to thermal analysis, especially if the points on that meridian are stimulated. However, well-designed studies have shown this to be artefactual, not an actual property of meridians (see Figure 10.88).203
Therapeutic Use of Stress to Provoke Recovery
Published in William J. Rea, Kalpana D. Patel, Reversibility of Chronic Disease and Hypersensitivity, Volume 4, 2017
Acupuncture is a procedure involving the stimulation, with very fine needles, of specific acupuncture points along the surface of the body in an effort to correct imbalances in the flow of information and energy along the meridians that form a continuous communication network throughout the expanse of the body. By simulating an injury without actually seriously damaging the tissue, the healing cascade is activated. In essence, the mild stimulus is thought to tune up the repair channels, thereby restoring the flow of energy, relieving pain, and curing any number of mental and physical conditions.
Homo Sapiens (“Us”): Strengths and Weaknesses
Published in Michael Hehenberger, Zhi Xia, Huanming Yang, Our Animal Connection, 2020
Michael Hehenberger, Zhi Xia, Huanming Yang
Acupuncture is believed by its followers to restore the energy balance in the body, thereby reducing pain signals through production of endorphins that are known to be the natural painkillers. Clinical studies suggest that acupuncture can reduce joint pain and so the therapy can be effective in reducing pain caused by knee osteoarthritis.
Development and evaluation of acu-magnetic therapeutic knee brace for symptomatic knee osteoarthritis relief in the elderly
Published in The Journal of The Textile Institute, 2021
Zidan Gong, Rong Liu, Winnie Yu, Thomas Kwok-Shing Wong, Yuanqi Guo
Acu-magnetic therapy has been defined as a nonpharmacological approach which consists of acu- and magnetic therapies to apply stimulation on acupuncture points with a static magnetic field (A. Colbert et al., 2008). Acu-therapy belongs to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) system that has been applied in treating KOA as either a main or complementary therapeutic fashion (Barnes & Bloom, 2008). Based on the theory of acupoint stimulation, it is able to correct imbalanced Qi flow inside the human body and to improve physiological functions including knee associated disorders (Kwan et al., 2014). Positive effectiveness of acu-therapy has been reported on reduction of knee pain and stiffness, relief of joint edema and inflammation, and emotion improvement by employing different modalities in KOA treatment, including traditional acupuncture (Mavrommatis et al., 2012), laser acupuncture (Yurtkuran et al., 2007; Zhao et al., 2010), electric acupuncture (B. Berman et al., 2004; White et al., 2016), acupressure (L. W. Li et al., 2018) and moxibustion (Kim et al., 2014; Ren et al., 2011). Meanwhile, external static magnetic field supplied on the acupoints is able to induce neurohormonal responses and secretions, thereby increasing bone strength in fracture healing (Bruce et al., 1987), promoting blood circulation, relieving fibromyalgia (A. P. Colbert et al., 1999), decreasing postural sway (Suomi & Koceja, 2001), and suppressing pain perception (Hong et al., 1986). However, to date, few studies reported an integrative effectiveness of acu- and magnetic-treatment for KOA relief in the elderly people.
Bibliometric analysis on cardiovascular disease treated by traditional Chinese medicines based on big data
Published in International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems, 2020
Junnan Liu, Xing Zhai, Xianfu Liao
The rapid development of the technology of data in all walks of life has brought unprecedented opportunities and challenges, big data includes traditional structured data, including under the network environment of unstructured data and semi-structured data, it is more a kind of data size and data type of the revolution, as it is a method of data processing and analysing the concept of innovation [1]. At present, big data has become a new research point of library and information science. At the same time, bibliometrics, as an important part of the discipline system of library and information science, is an interdisciplinary subject that USES mathematical and statistical methods to analyse massive data and excavate literature rules, and it is also the application of big data technology in the field of literature. In the field of medicine, bibliometrics has been widely used in the research of AIDS [2], tumour molecular epidemiology [3], tuberculosis [4], Parkinson's disease [5], Alzheimer’s disease [6], literature mining in the field of biomedicine [7], traditional Chinese medicine [8] and acupuncture [9].