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Chiropractic care and the risk of vertebrobasilar stroke: results of a case–control study in U.S. commercial and Medicare Advantage populations
Conclusions We found no significant association between exposure to chiropractic care and the risk of VBA stroke. We conclude that manipulation is an unlikely cause of VBA stroke. The positive association between PCP visits and VBA stroke is most likely due to patient decisions to seek care for the symptoms (headache and neck pain) of arterial dissection. We further conclude that using chiropractic visits as a measure of exposure to manipulation may result in unreliable estimates of the strength of association with the occurrence of VBA stroke.
Source: Chiropractic and Manual Therapies - June 16, 2015 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research

Does case misclassification threaten the validity of studies investigating the relationship between neck manipulation and vertebral artery dissection stroke? No
ConclusionCurrent evidence does not support the notion that misclassification threatens the validity of recent case –control studies investigating the relationship between CMT and VAD. Hence, the recent re-analysis cannot refute the conclusion from previous studies that CMT is not a cause of VAD.
Source: Chiropractic and Manual Therapies - November 4, 2016 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research

Effects of acupuncture combined with Brunnstrom staging on upper-limb motor function, cerebral arterial blood flow velocity, and brain function remodeling after stroke
ConclusionAcupuncture combined with Brunnstrom staging is effective for patients after stroke. It can effectively improve the upper-limb motor function and cerebral artery blood flow velocity, promote brain function remodeling, and restore nerve function.
Source: Journal of Acupuncture and Tuina Science - February 1, 2022 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research

The Prognostic Value of Traditional Chinese Medicine Symptoms in Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Pilot Study.
Conclusions: The combination of 10 TCM symptoms, once onset occurred, including hemiplegia, restlessness, hemianesthesia, short breath, headache, constipation, night sweat, tinnitus, thirsty, and gurgling with sputum, may affect the recovery of motor dysfunction. Furthermore, the improvements of TCM symptoms dynamically after treatment would be observed in a large prospective cohort. This trial is registered with NCT01806233. PMID: 32733577 [PubMed]
Source: Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine - August 1, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Tags: Evid Based Complement Alternat Med Source Type: research

Headache, neck manipulation and stroke: the atlanto‐axial triad
Discussion of neck manipulation generates controversy and raises many questions. To date, the prevailing medical opinion is that upper neck manipulation is unsafe. Many case reports associating neck manipulation with stroke provide good reason not to recommend or submit to upper neck manipulation. Headache is one of the most common conditions treated by manipulating the upper cervical spine where vertebral and internal carotid arteries are most susceptible to injury that may curtail flow of blood to the brain. Physicians and lay persons who have questions about the benefits and dangers of neck manipulation may find this ar...
Source: Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies - February 29, 2016 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Samuel Homola Tags: Perspective Source Type: research

Headache, neck manipulation and stroke: the atlanto ‐axial triad
Discussion of neck manipulation generates controversy and raises many questions. To date, the prevailing medical opinion is that upper neck manipulation is unsafe. Many case reports associating neck manipulation with stroke provide good reason not to recommend or submit to upper neck manipulation. Headache is one of the most common conditions treated by manipulating the upper cervical spine where vertebral and internal carotid arteries are most susceptible to injury that may curtail flow of blood to the brain. Physicians and lay persons who have questions about the benefits and dangers of neck manipulation may find this ar...
Source: Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies - February 29, 2016 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Samuel Homola Tags: Perspective Source Type: research

DC Electroacupuncture Effects on Scars and Sutures of a Patient with Postconcussion Paina.
Conclusions: The ANS response of a patient with ischemic stroke, PCS, and chronic pain, who received electrical nerve stimulation using DC-EA reflected a measurable improvement in sympathetic tone, along with reductions in pain levels and PCS symptoms. The positive results in this case study could have applications to other pathologies that can be affected by the sympathetic nervous system activation on the body. PMID: 27610209 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Acupuncture in Medicine - July 31, 2016 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Chevalier A, Armstrong K, Norwood-Williams C, Gokal R Tags: Med Acupunct 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

Better than Aspirin for Your Heart
If you’ve been diagnosed with heart disease, the chances are you’ve been told to take low-dose aspirin every day as a preventative measure against heart attack and stroke. It’s most commonly prescribed for patients with congestive heart failure. This is the inability of your heart to pump as much blood as your body needs. And this is a big worry to me, because there is very little evidence that aspirin helps. In fact, regular use of aspirin — even baby aspirin — can do you more harm than good. Common Aspirin Beliefs The idea is that aspirin thins the blood, making it easier to pump.  It is also s...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - April 1, 2016 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Al Sears Tags: Heart Health Source Type: news

Registration of intervention trials of Traditional Chinese Medicine for four neurological diseases on Chinese Clinical Trial Registry and ClinicalTrials.gov: a narrative review
CONCLUSIONS: Irregular and inadequate reporting, untimely update and publication, insufficient information on traditional medicine unique characteristics, and lack of international collaborations are the problems existing in the interventional clinical registration trials of traditional medicine treatment on neurological diseases. More efforts need to be made from the above aspects to standardize and improve the registration of traditional medicine trials.PMID:35294135
Source: Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine - March 16, 2022 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Jing-Jing Wei Rong-Juan Guo Guo-Jing Fu Xiao Liang Zhen-Min Xu Min Jia Zi-Xiu Zeng Wan-Qing DU Wei-Wei Jiao Lin-Juan Sun Hong-Mei Liu Chun-Li Guo Chen-Guang Tong Yun-Ling Zhang Xing Liao Source Type: research

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