Trial reportThorax2002
Laser acupuncture in children and adolescents with exercise induced asthma.
Trial report in Thorax, 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 54 citations in OpenAlex.
- Efficacy of acupuncture in children with asthma: a systematic review.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2015Pooled it
- Acupuncture for chronic asthma.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2004Pooled it
- Adjuvant laser acupuncture in the treatment of whiplash injuries: a prospective, randomized placebo-controlled trial.Wiener klinische Wochenschrift · 2006Trial
- Research hotspot and frontier analysis of traditional Chinese medicine in asthma using bibliometric methods from 1991 to 2021.The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. Global · 2022Review
- Methods of effective low-level laser therapy in the treatment of patients with bronchial asthma (literature review).BioMedicine · 2020Review
- Bee venom stimulation of a lung meridian acupoint reduces inflammation in carrageenan-induced pleurisy: an alternative therapeutic approach for respiratory inflammation.Journal of veterinary science · 2018Article
- Evaluation of the improvement effect of laser acupuncture biostimulation in asthmatic children by exhaled inflammatory biomarker level of nitric oxide.Lasers in medical science · 2017Article
- Near-infrared spectroscopy for objectifying cerebral effects of laser acupuncture in term and preterm neonates.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2013Article
- Laser acupuncture: past, present, and future.Lasers in medical science · 2004Review
- Anti-inflammatory actions of acupuncture.Mediators of inflammation · 2003Review
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7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundLaser acupuncture, a painless technique, is a widely used alternative treatment method for childhood asthma, although its efficacy has not been proved in controlled clinical studies.
methodsA double blind, placebo controlled, crossover study was performed to investigate the possible protective effect of a single laser acupuncture treatment on cold dry air hyperventilation induced bronchoconstriction in 44 children and adolescents of mean age 11.9 years (range 7.5-16.7) with exercise induced asthma. Laser acupuncture was performed on real and placebo points in random order on two consecutive days. Lung function was measured before laser acupuncture, immediately after laser acupuncture (just before cold dry air challenge (CACh)), and 3 and 15 minutes after CACh. CACh consisted of a 4 minute isocapnic hyperventilation of -10 degrees C absolute dry air.
resultsComparison of real acupuncture with placebo acupuncture showed no significant differences in the mean maximum CACh induced decrease in forced expiratory volume in 1 second (27.2 (18.2)% v 23.8 (16.2)%) and maximal expiratory flow at 25% remaining vital capacity (51.6 (20.8)% v 44.4 (22.3)%).
conclusionsA single laser acupuncture treatment offers no protection against exercise induced bronchoconstriction in paediatric and adolescent patients.
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