Acupuncture : Review and Analysis of Reports on Controlled Clinical Trial.
Title:
Acupuncture : Review and Analysis of Reports on Controlled Clinical Trial.
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Organization, World Health.
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9789240680029
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (88 pages)
Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Background -- Objectives -- Use of the publication -- 1. General considerations -- Definition -- Need for evaluation -- Evaluation methodology -- Safety -- Availability and practicability -- Studies on therapeutic mechanisms -- Selection of clinical trial reports -- 2. Review of clinical trial reports -- Pain -- 2.1.1 Head and face -- 2.1.2 Locomotor system -- 2.1.3 Gout -- 2.1.4 Biliary and renal colic -- 2.1.5 Traumatic or postoperative pain -- 2.1.6 Dentistry -- 2.1.7 Childbirth -- 2.1.8 Surgery -- Infections -- Neurological disorders -- Respiratory disorders -- Digestive disorders -- Blood disorders -- Urogenital disorders -- Gynaecological and obstetric disorders -- Cardiovascular disorders -- Psychiatric disorders and mental disturbances -- Paediatric disorders -- Disorders of the sense organs -- Skin diseases -- Cancers -- Other reports -- 3. Diseases and disorders that can be treated with acupuncture -- 4. Summary table of controlled clinical trials -- Abdominal pain in acute gastroenteritis -- Acne vulgaris -- Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy -- Alcohol dependence -- Alcohol detoxification -- Allergic rhinitis -- Angina pectoris -- Aphasia due to acute cerebrovascular disorders -- Arthritis -- Asthma -- Bell's palsy -- Biliary colic -- Bladder problems -- Breathlessness in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease -- Bronchial asthma -- Bulbar paralysis after stroke -- Cancer pain -- Cardiac neurosis -- Cardiopulmonary disease -- Cerebrovascular disorders -- Chloasma -- Cholecystitis -- Cholelithiasis -- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease -- Cocaine dependence -- Colour blindness -- Coma -- Competition stress syndrome -- Convulsions in infants and young children due to high fever -- Coronary heart disease -- Craniocerebral injury, closed -- Deafness, sudden onset.
Defective ejaculation -- Dental pain -- Dependence, alcohol -- Dependence, opium, cocaine and heroin -- Dependence, tobacco -- Depression -- Depressive neurosis -- Diabetes mellitus, non-insulin-dependent -- Diarrhoea -- Dysentry, acute bacillary -- Dysmenorrhoea, primary -- Dysphagia in pseudobulbar paralysis -- E........ -- F........ -- G....... -- H....... -- I....... -- K...... -- L....... -- M..... -- N...... -- O..... -- P..... -- R....... -- S....... -- T...... -- U..... -- V....... -- W..... -- References.
Abstract:
The therapy of acupuncture has a long history. In its 2500 years of development, a wealth of experience has been accumulated, attesting to the wide range of diseases and conditions that can effectively be treated with its approach. In the past two decades, there have been extensive studies on acupuncture and great efforts have been undertaken to conduct controlled clinical trials, including the use of ''sham'' acupuncture or ''placebo'' acupuncture controls. This document is a brief review of the current literature on acupuncture practice, which may provide information about the effectiveness of different aspects of acupuncture therapy. Since the methodology of clinical research on acupuncture is still under debate, it is very difficult to evaluate acupuncture practice by any generally accepted measure. In this publication, only the results of controlled clinical trials that were formally published through the year 1998 (and early 1999 for some journals) are collected and reviewed, so that the conclusions may be generally accepted. In order to promote the appropriate use of acupuncture in those Member States where acupuncture has not been widely used, this document is annexed with a brief abstract of each relevant reference for the assessment of acupuncture practice. The clinical conditions covered in the existing data are also included. It must be emphasized that the list of diseases, symptoms or conditions covered in the publication is based on collected reports of clinical trials and, so, can serve only as a reference. Only national health authorities can determine the diseases, symptoms and conditions for which acupuncture treatment can be recommended.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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