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ArticleInternational journal of clinical and experimental medicine2015

EMP acupoint stimulation conducive to increase the effect of weight reduction through aerobic exercise.

Chun Jiao, Ximei Zhu, Hongyu Zhang, Xiaowei Du

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Article in International journal of clinical and experimental medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Chun JiaoThe Lab of Human Body Science, Henan Polytechnic University Jiaozuo 454000, Henan Province, China.
Ximei ZhuThe Center of Physical Health, Henan Polytechnic University Jiaozuo 454000, Henan Province, China.
Hongyu ZhangThe Center of Physical Health, Henan Polytechnic University Jiaozuo 454000, Henan Province, China.
Xiaowei DuThe Lab of Human Body Science, Henan Polytechnic University Jiaozuo 454000, Henan Province, China.
Henan Polytechnic University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeto observe whether weight reduction through aerobic exercise is more effective with the intervention of electromagnetic pulse (EMP) Acupoint stimulation.

methodbased on the need of this study, we choose 48 young and middle-aged obese patients and randomly divide them into Experimental Group and Control Group with each group consisting of 24 of them. The Control Group has an aerobic endurance running each day with each running lasting for about 45 minutes and covering about 6 KM; the Experimental Group has the same exercise as the CG, but, after their running, stimulation by electromagnetic pulse meter is given to their Sanyinjiao Acupoint and Zushanli Acupoint. Then the content of body fat and the lipid indexes of the two groups before the treatment are compared with their counterparts after the said treatment.

resultafter 6 weeks of treatment, the various indexes of the two groups are improved to different degrees (P<0.05); the effect on lipid indexes of the Experimental Group is obviously better than that of the Control Group (P<0.05), but the content of their body fat shows no conspicuous difference (P>0.05).

conclusionafter 6 weeks of treatment, the intervention of EMP acupoint stimulation can more evidently improve the lipid indexes than it has done to the group only having aerobic exercise; but it has little effect in terms of the improvement of the body fat content, which may be because of the short time of such intervention.

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acupoint stimulationAerobic exerciseelectromagnetic pulseobesitytreatment effect

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PMID26379942
PMCPMC4565325
OpenAlexW2405664535

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