Episode #1: Acupuncture: exploring the current evidence-base
ACU-Track: The Acupuncture Research Podcast
English - August 05, 2021 22:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsLife Sciences Science Health & Fitness Alternative Health acupuncture research alternative health complementary medicine integrative health placebo Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Off the back of the Society for Acupuncture Research (SAR) conference (2021), in this episode Nick and Spod will be discussing the current state of the evidence-base for acupuncture.
They will be exploring questions including:
References from the show:
Efficacy for chronic pain (MacPherson and Charlesworth, 2020; Vickers et al., 2018):
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29198932/ and https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33362893/
Efficacy for migraines (Zhao et al., 2017): https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2603492
UK NICE guidelines chronic pain (National Institute for Clinical Excellence NICE, 2021):
https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng193/evidence/acupuncture-in-people-with-chronic-primary-pain-pdf-9075291805
Acupuncture and mechanical placebos (Kaptchuk, 2020): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33362886/
Future directions for acupuncture research (Schnyer and Hullender Rubin, 2020): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33362894/
Acupuncture reducing risk of coronary heart disease in osteoarthritis patients (Ton et al., 2021):
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32744906/
Acupuncture and anti-inflammatory pathways (Liu et al., 2020): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32791039/
Acupuncture for carpal tunnel syndrome (Maeda et al., 2017): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28334999/
Acupuncture and fibromyalgia RCT and neuroimaging (Mawla et al., 2021): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33314799/