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Acupuncture May Decrease the Incidence of Post-stroke Dementia: A Taiwan Nationwide Retrospective Cohort Study
Conclusions: The association between stroke and dementia existed in both sexes, more prominent in male. Patients with stroke receiving acupuncture treatments showed decreased risk of dementia. Care must be taken evaluating these results because this study was limited to lack of information regarding lifestyles, stroke severities, and acupuncture methods that were used in treatments.
Source: Frontiers in Neurology - May 21, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

Effect of acupuncture treatment on post-stroke cognitive impairment: A randomized controlled trial
Introduction: Post-stroke cognitive impairment (PSCI), which has a high morbidity, is closely associated with the recurrence and rehabilitation of ischemic stroke. There are 2 different stages of PSCI, including post-stroke cognitive impairment with no dementia (PSCIND) and post-stroke dementia (PSD). The latter has a significantly higher mortality rate than the previous one. Therefore, preventing the onset of PSD is of vital importance. However, there is no unequivocally effective prevention or treatment for PSCI, except intensive secondary prevention of stroke. The primary aim of this protocol is to explore whether a...
Source: Medicine - December 18, 2020 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Research Article: Study Protocol Clinical Trial Source Type: research

Efficacy of Acupuncture Treatment for Incidence of Poststroke Comorbidities: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Nationalized Cohort Studies
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2022 Feb 1;2022:3919866. doi: 10.1155/2022/3919866. eCollection 2022.ABSTRACTAcupuncture has been applied as a complementary therapy in stroke survivors worldwide and approved to be beneficial to stroke recovery. However, there is little medical evidence regarding the association between acupuncture and the risk of poststroke comorbidities. We reviewed big data studies from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database to investigate the risk of poststroke comorbidities after acupuncture treatment in a real-world situation. Ten English (PubMed, Embase, Medline, Cochrane, Alt Hea...
Source: Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine - February 14, 2022 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Li-Kung Wu Chung-Shan Hung Yen-Lun Kung Zhong-Kui Chen Shinn-Zong Lin Jaung-Geng Lin Tsung-Jung Ho Source Type: research

The Effects of Acupuncture on Cerebral and Muscular Microcirculation: A Systematic Review of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Studies.
Authors: Lo MY, Ong MW, Chen WY, Sun WZ, Lin JG Abstract Acupuncture produces physiological effects via stimulating acupoints, proximal or distal to the region of effect. Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) noninvasively measures tissue-level hemodynamics in real time. We review the literature investigating the effect of acupuncture on muscular and/or cerebral microcirculation. As the basis, we queried PubMed in June 2014 for articles mentioning both acupuncture and NIRS in title/abstract. The reviewed papers investigated either cerebral (n = 11) or muscular hemodynamics (n = 5) and, based on STRICTA for reporting ac...
Source: Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine - August 1, 2015 Category: Complementary Medicine Tags: Evid Based Complement Alternat Med Source Type: research

Effectiveness of acupuncture for patients with vascular dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis
CONCLUSIONS: Acupuncture is probably helpful in vascular stroke, but strong supportive data are not yet available. Acupuncture should be used cautiously, owing to the analysis of this study based on low to moderate evidence. Further high-quality, large-scale RCTs should be conducted.PMID:35843473 | DOI:10.1016/j.ctim.2022.102857
Source: Complementary Therapies in Medicine - July 17, 2022 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Yinghua Chen Haoyu Wang Zhongren Sun Xiaoqing Su Ruiqi Qin Junfeng Li Wei Sun Source Type: research

Why acupuncture is giving sceptics the needle
Acupuncture has been prescribed by half of Britain's doctors, but after 3,000 clinical trials its efficacy remains unproven. So is the NHS making a grave error in supporting this ancient treatment?• Are vitamin pills a sham? Q&A with Dr. Paul OffitYou can't get crystal healing on the NHS. The Department of Health doesn't fund faith healing. And most doctors believe magnets are best stuck on fridges, not patients. But ask for a treatment in which an expert examines your tongue, smells your skin and tries to unblock the flow of life force running through your body with needles and the NHS will be happy to oblige.The govern...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 26, 2013 Category: Science Authors: David Derbyshire Tags: Culture Health Science and scepticism Features NHS Alternative medicine The Observer Source Type: news

Acute effects of electro-acupuncture (EA) on hippocampal long term potentiation (LTP) of perforant path-dentate gyrus granule cells synapse related to memory.
Authors: He X, Yan T, Chen R, Ran D Abstract Acupuncture, a traditional Chinese therapeutic method, has been widely used in clinical practice to treat diseases such as stroke, Bell's palsy, Alzheimer disease, Parkinson diseases, dysmenorrhea and chronic pain. Mounting lab data had suggested that electro-acupuncture could alleviate dementia and restore long term potentiation of hippocampus in rat. Clinical data also indicated that electro-acupuncture could improve electrical activity of brain in vascular dementia patients. However, its biological basis and acute effects on hippocampal long term potentiation (LTP) re...
Source: Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics Research - November 30, 2015 Category: Complementary Medicine Tags: Acupunct Electrother Res Source Type: research

Acupuncture Attenuated Vascular Dementia-Induced Hippocampal Long-Term Potentiation Impairments via Activation of D1/D5 Receptors Basic Sciences
Conclusions—Improvement in cognition and hippocampal synaptic plasticity induced by acupuncture was achieved via activation of D1/D5 receptors in 2VO rats.
Source: Stroke - March 27, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: Yang Ye, Hui Li, Jing-Wen Yang, Xue-Rui Wang, Guang-Xia Shi, Chao-Qun Yan, Si-Ming Ma, Wen Zhu, Qian-Qian Li, Tian-Ran Li, Ling-Yong Xiao, Cun-Zhi Liu Tags: Animal Models of Human Disease, Basic Science Research, Mechanisms, Cognitive Impairment, Vascular Disease Original Contributions Source Type: research

Traditional Chinese herbal medicine for vascular dementia.
CONCLUSIONS: We found moderate- to very low-quality evidence of benefit and harm of TCHMs for VaD. Methodological inadequacies need to be addressed by better conducted and reported trials. We identified NaoMaiTai, NaoXinTong and TongXinLuo as warranting special research priority. PMID: 30520514 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - December 6, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Chan ES, Bautista DT, Zhu Y, You Y, Long JT, Li W, Chen C Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research

Signal Transduction Pathways of Acupuncture for Treating Some Nervous System Diseases.
Authors: Lai HC, Chang QY, Hsieh CL Abstract In this article, we review signal transduction pathways through which acupuncture treats nervous system diseases. We electronically searched the databases, including PubMed, MEDLINE, clinical Key, the Cochrane Library, and the China National Knowledge Infrastructure from their inception to December 2018 using the following MeSH headings and keywords alone or in varied combination: acupuncture, molecular, signal transduction, genetic, cerebral ischemic injury, cerebral hemorrhagic injury, stroke, epilepsy, seizure, depression, Alzheimer's disease, dementia, vascular demen...
Source: Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine - August 6, 2019 Category: Complementary Medicine Tags: Evid Based Complement Alternat Med Source Type: research