Question

CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING: ACUPUNCTURE, ESSENTIAL OILS, HOMEOPATHY, MASSAGE

• What are the benefits?

What are the concerns?

• What is the evidence?

• What level of evidence is each study, using the Hierarchy of evidence?

• An APA style Citation is required. • Try to find 4 excellent studies. If no evidence is found, explain what you do find.

Answer 1

Acupuncture in modern healthcare:

Acupuncture is one kind of special treatment it mainly involves with the inserting of very thin needles through a person's body at specific points to various depths. Several researches was concluded that it can be mostly helpful treatment for relieving pains and also by using this process a wide range of other complaints are also solved.

This pain gate theory relies on the pain perception in different individuals. This theory is based on the fact that one type of pain may cancel another. It says that the pain messages from different nerve fibres pass through the same neural channel or gate. Therefore, if the gate is closed by one type of pain message then other pain messages may not be able to pass through. This logic seems to work in the case of acupuncture. This is an ancient Chinese science which is believed to relieve pain by inserting small needles into the body. These needles are heated or electrified and when inserted, they activate small pain fibres. These small pain fibres then relay the brain to close down the neural gate responsible for transmission of pain. This produces short term pain relief.

Acupuncture benefits:

It is safe, when it performed correctly.

Some types of pain are controlled by this treatment.

Side effects are very few.

Combined with other treatments also It can be effectively

It is more suitable for patients, who are not suitable for pain medications.

Acupuncture concerns:

Fatigue

Soreness

Lightheadedness

Muscle twitching

Bruising

Acupuncture evidence:

According to the recent Germany research has clearly shown that the acupuncture can helps to relieve tension migraines and headaches.

National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) has been proven an acupuncture can helps in the cases of osteoarthritis, neck pain, migraine, headache, knee pain and lower back pain.

World Health Organization (WHO) was listed a number of conditions in 2003, in which the WHO says that the acupuncture has been proven effective. These include peptic ulcer, chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting, high and low BP, facial pain, sprains, dental pain, painful periods and reducing the risk of stroke.

Resent references:

Jo J, Lee YJ. Effectiveness of acupuncture in women with polycystic ovarian syndrome undergoing in vitro fertilisation or intracytoplasmic sperm injection: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Acupunct Med. 2017 Jan 11.

MacPherson H, Vertosick EA, Foster NE, Lewith G, Linde K, Sherman KJ, et al. The persistence of the effects of acupuncture after a course of treatment: A meta-analysis of patients with chronic pain. Pain. 2016 Oct 17.

Vieira BL, Lim NR, Lohman ME, Lio PA. Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Atopic Dermatitis: An Evidence-Based Review. Am J Clin Dermatol. 2016 Jul 7. 232.

Yao Q, Li S, Liu X, Qin Z, Liu Z. The Effectiveness and Safety of Acupuncture for Patients with Chronic Urticaria: A Systematic Review. Biomed Res Int. 2016;2016:5191729.