Sally Waterhouse is a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) acupuncturist practising in Cambridge city as well as around Cambridgeshire, UK. Here she shares some of her thoughts, findings and stories. Feel free to take a look around.
New research published by medline has shown that acupuncture during acute stage peripheral facial palsy ( i.e. 1-3 weeks after initial occurance ) is twice as effective as during recovery. 900 participants took place in the study and it was found that those who received acupuncture or electro-acupuncture within three weeks of onset showed a 50.1 – 52.1% improvement rate, while ...
A recent study by Zhao, L et al has shown that acupuncture may be superior to western medicine in the treatment of neurovascular headaches, and that body-acupuncture in conjunction with scalp or local point acupuncture was more effective than body-acupuncture alone. The term ‘neurovascular headache’ is used to describe a particular type of migraine which ...