07 Jun

Acupuncture Treats Back Pain

Acupuncture continues to gain popularity in this country because it is an effective treatment of acute and chronic backache. Acute pain can often be cleared up in a few sessions. More treatments may be needed if there is an underlying deficiency, or reoccurring problem, or sciatica.

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25 Mar

Meralgia paresthetica or Bernhardt-Roth syndrome

Meralgia paresthetica is a condition characterized by tingling, numbness and burning pain in the outer part of your thigh. The condition is caused by compression of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve, which supplies sensation to your upper leg. Conventional medicine uses cortisone injection at the point where the nerve crosses the crease in the groin. […]

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23 Mar

Acupuncture can relieve pain, nausea after chemotherapy

The effect of acupuncture on chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting has been studied over the past 20 years, and clinical evidence gathered to date has been favorable. CNN: When Titi Ariyo was diagnosed with early stage breast cancer, her doctors put her on a treatment that caused her to have some serious side effects. “I had […]

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03 Jun

Fibromyalgia with perspective of acupuncture

Fibromyalgia has many symptoms. However, three symptoms are the most common ones: 1) Chronic muscle pain, muscle spasms, or tightness Even though pain can be all over the body, they are mostly located in area of following meridians: QuChi, FengChi, FuTu, JianJin, ShouSanLi, HuanTiao, JuLiao, QuChuan, ShenChang Fibormyalgia can also have people with migraine, TMJ, […]

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24 Apr

Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) and Responsive Cortical Stimulation(RNS) — Epilepsy Treatment

There are many important differences between VNS and the NeuroPace RNS System. First and foremost, VNS stimulates the vagus nerve in the neck whereas the NeuroPace RNS System is cranially implanted and stimulates preselected cortical epileptic foci in the brain. One or 2 recording and stimulating depth or subdural cortical strips are surgically placed according […]

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29 Mar

Bell’s palsy: it can happen on another side after the first one

A lady came in my office lately from out of state. She has Bell’s Palsy. A year ago, she had it at one side for one month before I saw her. It took me 10 days to cure her. And this time it happens on another side. When I saw her, She looked very stressful […]

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26 Aug

Pain relief (urinary)

Goal: Pain relief (urinary) Problem area: Interstitial cystisis. Bladder pain, spasms, urethra pain, urinary pain & frequency. Pelvic floor dysfunction/spasms. (Chronic condition started 5 years prior due to a bad urinary infection that damaged the bladder. It did not heal correctly and since then, bladder gets inflamed causing flares that increases in severity with each […]

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26 Aug

Neurological disorder: Essential tremor (ET) and kinetic tremor

Essential tremor is commonly described as an action tremor (it intensifies when one tries to use the affected muscles) rather than a resting tremor; rigidity, such as is seen in Parkinson’s. It typically involves a tremor of the arms, hands or fingers but sometimes involving the head or other body parts during voluntary movements. There […]

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29 Jul

Pain relief (shoulder, carpal tunnel)

Goal: Pain relief Problem area: Pain (R shoulder, since 3 weeks prior). Later in treatment: Spasm on outer side of arm. Pain in finger when she clicks mouse, pain (palm and arm). Even later in treatment: pain (Right upper back & leg) caused by inappropriate twisting of neck in gym. Prior conditions: none Current Medication/Prior […]

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29 Jul

Neurological disorder: Trigeminal neuralgia – Trigeminal nerve (V) Facial nerve paralysis -Bell’s palsy and Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome

Cranial nerve disease is an impaired functioning of one of the twelve cranial nerves The most common cause of this cranial nerve damage is Bell’s palsy (idiopathic facial palsy) which is a paralysis of the facial nerve. Although Bell’s palsy is more prominent in adults it seems to be found in those younger than 20 […]

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