Acupuncture Points (Acupuncture Point)

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604 relevant articles (62 outcomes, 109 trials/studies) found for this Therapy

Description: Designated locations along nerves or organ meridians for inserting acupuncture needles.

Also Known As:

Acupuncture Point; Acupoint; Acupoints; Point, Acupuncture; Points, Acupuncture

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Therapy Context: Research Results

Therapeutics: 5215

Complementary Therapies: 1920

Acupuncture Therapy: 180

Meridians: 139

Acupuncture Points: 604

Experts

1.	Kitakoji, Hiroshi: 4 articles (03/2008 - 12/2004)
2.	Itoh, Kazunori: 4 articles (03/2008 - 12/2004)
3.	Katsumi, Yasukazu: 4 articles (03/2008 - 12/2004)
4.	Hirota, Satoko: 3 articles (03/2008 - 03/2006)
5.	Li, Yan-hui: 3 articles (03/2007 - 04/2005)
6.	Lee, Hye-Jung: 3 articles (08/2006 - 03/2003)
7.	Luo, Fei: 3 articles (07/2004 - 06/2003)
8.	Yin, Li-Li: 2 articles (06/2008 - 12/2007)
9.	Wang, Zheng: 2 articles (04/2008 - 01/2007)
10.	Zhang, Hong-Xing: 2 articles (04/2008 - 02/2007)

Related Diseases

1.	Pain (Aches) 07/01/2002 - "Therefore, the benefit of acupuncture in musculoskeletal pain relief for which it is most commonly used, would not be limited to classical acupuncture points on the meridians" 12/01/1994 - "So the measuring device needs to be improved with after evolution, and more acupuncture points need to be explored to complete our pain-related BSR map" 04/01/2008 - "Besides, it is safe and effective, with no pain or only slight pain, easy in locating the acupoint accurately, standard prescription, high compliance of patients, and convenient for clinical operating, therefore, it is worthy of spreading in clinical practice." 02/15/2001 - "Finally, injection of BV into the Zusanli acupoint resulted in a significantly greater analgesic effect on arthritic pain as compared to BV injection in to a more distant non-acupoint" 02/01/2002 - "CONCLUSION: In the treatment of chronic epicondylopathia lateralis humeri, acupuncture in which real acupuncture points were selected and stimulated was superior to non-specific acupuncture with respect to reduction in pain and improvement in the functioning of the arm" Order ALL the reference details at left...
2.	Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting (PONV) 02/01/2004 - "This randomised, placebo-controlled, patient and observer blinded trial was conducted to determine whether acupuncture at the acupuncture point P6 is effective in preventing postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) compared to placebo acupuncture" 06/01/2005 - "Stimulation of acupuncture points has been shown to be effective in the prevention as well as treatment of PONV" 07/01/2008 - "P6 acupuncture point stimulation for prevention of postoperative nausea and vomiting." 12/01/2007 - "CONCLUSION: Intraoperative P6 acupuncture point stimulation with a conventional nerve stimulator during surgery significantly reduced the incidence of PONV over 24 h" 12/01/2007 - "The authors tested the effect of neuromuscular monitoring over the P6 acupuncture point on the reduction of PONV" Order ALL the reference details at left...
3.	Nausea 12/01/2004 - "The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of the stimulation of the P6 acupoint on swallowing, nausea and retching during the gastroscopic procedure" 08/01/2005 - "Acupoint stimulation had no effect on basal LES pressure, the residual LES pressure during TLESRs, the duration of TLESRs, or gastrointestinal symptoms of fullness, bloating, discomfort, or nausea" 12/01/2004 - "CONCLUSIONS: Acustimulation of the Neiguan (P6) acupoint does not relieve patients of the nausea observed during gastroscopy, and its application does not facilitate the procedure." 12/01/2004 - "The Neiguan point (P6) is an acupuncture point that has been used for approximately 3,000 years to overcome gastric symptoms including nausea and retching" 03/01/2004 - "These techniques claim to reduce nausea through stimulation of the P6/Neiguan acupuncture point by applying acupressure or electrical acustimulation" Order ALL the reference details at left...
4.	Stroke (Strokes) 01/01/2005 - "The acupoint, GB34, located in the back of the knee, is known to be effective in recovering motor function after a stroke" 03/01/2007 - "METHODS: Five hundred and seventy-eight cases of stroke were randomly divided into 4 groups: an improved acupoints and rehabilitation exercise group (group A, n = 148), a rehabilitation exercise group (group B, n = 142), a routine acupoints and rehabilitation exercise group (group C, n = 144), and a medication group (group D, n = 144)" 01/01/2008 - "The effect of low versus high frequency electrical acupoint stimulation on motor recovery after ischemic stroke by motor evoked potentials study." 11/01/2006 - "An fMRI study of somatosensory-implicated acupuncture points in stable somatosensory stroke patients." 10/01/2008 - "Under guidance of the traditional theories of acupuncture and modern knowledge of anatomy and in combination with his long-term clinical practice and clinical researches, academician SHI Xue-min formulates scien tific and strict acupuncture methods and corresponding quantitative requirement for the acupoints for treatment of stroke and relative diseases and symptoms, including patient's posture, doctor's posture, angle of needle insertion, manipulation, amount of arrival of qi, etc. Correct grasping these needling methods of acupoints is a key to learn and understand SHI Xue-min's Acupuncture Science and "Xingnao Kaiqiao" needling method and quantitative acu puncture manipulation theory" Order ALL the reference details at left...
5.	Syndrome 05/01/2007 - "He holds that disease should be combined with syndrome, modern medical sciences are used for definite diagnosis of diseases; for acupoint prescriptions, fewer and better acupoints are selected, and treatment of difficult and complicated diseases with back-shu points usually can attain good results; correct application of needling manipulation and Deqi is the key of therapeutic effects; he creates and uses heat-sensation needling manipulation, the method of twirling-inserting needle with finger pressure, injection-type inserting needle method; combination of acupuncture-moxibustion with medicine can increase therapeutic effects" 01/01/1989 - "Successful therapy of the syndrome using laser-stimulated acupuncture points is discussed accordingly" 08/01/2008 - "The establishment of clinical syndrome differentiation system of acupuncture should base on characters and laws of acupuncture and take the syndrome differentiation according to meridian and collateral theories as main body, syndrome differentiation according to location as key, syndrome differentiation according to eight principles as guidance, syndrome differentiation according to zang-fu theory as complementarity, and pay attention to application of acupoint specificity in clinic, so as to reflect unique character of acupuncture theory and insure the veracity of syndrome differentiation of acupuncture and efficacy of acupuncture treatment." 03/01/2005 - "Study on correlativity of different syndrome types with acupoint resistance in the patient of epigastralgia]" 09/01/2008 - "The "syndrome differentiation-based treatment" is embodied in the scientific and orderly application of "principles, methods, prescriptions, acupoints and techniques" in the clinical practice" Order ALL the reference details at left...

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