ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2013
Visualization of the Meridian System Based on Biomedical Information about Acupuncture Treatment.
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- Efficacy and Safety of Acupuncture and or Moxibustion for Managing Primary Dysmenorrhea: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Clinical nursing research · 2022Pooled it
- Meta-Analysis of Integrated Therapeutic Methods in Noninvasive Lower Back Pain Therapy (LBP): The Role of Interdisciplinary Functional Diagnostics.Pain research & management · 2020Pooled it
- Comparative efficacy of acupuncture, venesection, and physical therapy on chronic low back pain outcomes: a randomized clinical trial.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2024Article
- Characteristics of five-phase acupoints from data mining of randomized controlled clinical trials followed by multidimensional scaling.Integrative medicine research · 2022Article
- Statistical inference of acupoint specificity: forward and reverse inference.Integrative medicine research · 2020Article
- Laser acupuncture for refractory coccydynia after traumatic coccyx fracture: A case report.Medicine · 2020Article
- The Endocannabinoid System Contributes to Electroacupuncture Analgesia.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2020Review
- Acupuncture and Neural Mechanism in the Management of Low Back Pain-An Update.Medicines (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Review
- Exploring spatial patterns of acupoint indications from clinical data: A STROBE-compliant article.Medicine · 2017Observational
- Spatial Patterns of the Indications of Acupoints Using Data Mining in Classic Medical Text: A Possible Visualization of the Meridian System.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2015Article
- Partially Automated Method for Localizing Standardized Acupuncture Points on the Heads of Digital Human Models.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2015Article
- Positioning Standardized Acupuncture Points on the Whole Body Based on X-Ray Computed Tomography Images.Medical acupuncture · 2014Article
- Data Mining of Acupoint Characteristics from the Classical Medical Text: DongUiBoGam of Korean Medicine.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2014Article
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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
The origin of the concept of the meridian system is closely connected with the treatment effects of acupuncture, and it serves as an empirical reference system in the clinical setting. Understanding the meridian channels would be a first step in enhancing the clinical efficacy of acupuncture treatment. To understand the relationship between the location of the disease and the sites of relevant acupoints, we investigated acupuncture treatment regimens for low-back pain in 37 clinical studies. We found that the most frequently used acupoints in the treatment of low-back pain were BL23 (51%), BL25 (43%), BL24 (32%), BL40 (32%), BL60 (32%), GB30 (32%), BL26 (28%), BL32 (28%), and GB34 (21%). For the example of low-back pain, we visualized the biomedical information (frequency rates) about acupuncture treatment on the meridians of a three-dimensional (3D) model of the human body. We found that both local and distal acupoints were used to treat low-back pain in clinical trials based on the meridian theory. We suggest a new model for the visualization of a data-driven 3D meridian system of biomedical information about the meridians and acupoints. These findings may be helpful in understanding the meridian system and revealing the effectiveness of acupuncture treatment.
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