ArticleJournal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.)2016
Unanticipated Insights into Biomedicine from the Study of Acupuncture.
Article in Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed, 48 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Therapeutic mechanisms of acupuncture therapy for acute pain in the emergency department.Integrative medicine research · 2026Review
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- Potential role of acupuncture in the treatment of Parkinson's disease: A narrative review.Integrative medicine research · 2023Review
- Study on the Prescription of Acupuncture in the Treatment of Cervical Spondylotic Radiculopathy Based on Computer Vision Image Analysis.Contrast media & molecular imaging · 2022Article
- Incorporating Acupuncture Into American Healthcare: Initiating a Discussion on Implementation Science, the Status of the Field, and Stakeholder Considerations.Global advances in health and medicine · 2021Article
- Acupuncture and Vitamin D for the Management of Aromatase Inhibitor-Induced Arthralgia.Current oncology reports · 2019Review
- Effects of Acupuncture on Chronic Stress-Induced Depression-Like Behavior and Its Central Neural Mechanism.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- What Is the Point? The Problem with Acupuncture Research That No One Wants to Talk About.Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) · 2018Article
- Spotlight on acupuncture in laboratory animal medicine.Veterinary medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2017Review
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14 authors at 13 institutions in 6 countries.
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Abstract
Research into acupuncture has had ripple effects beyond the field of acupuncture. This paper identifies five exemplars to illustrate that there is tangible evidence of the way insights gleaned from acupuncture research have informed biomedical research, practice, or policy. The first exemplar documents how early research into acupuncture analgesia has expanded into neuroimaging research, broadening physiologic understanding and treatment of chronic pain. The second describes how the acupuncture needle has become a tool to enhance biomedical knowledge of connective tissue. The third exemplar, which illustrates use of a modified acupuncture needle as a sham device, focuses on emergent understanding of placebo effects and, in turn, on insights into therapeutic encounters in treatments unrelated to acupuncture. The fourth exemplar documents that two medical devices now in widespread use were inspired by acupuncture: transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulators for pain control and antinausea wrist bands. The final exemplar describes how pragmatic clinical trial designs applied in acupuncture research have informed current general interest in comparative effectiveness research. In conclusion, these exemplars of unanticipated outcomes of acupuncture research comprise an additional rationale for continued support of basic and clinical research evaluating acupuncture and other under-researched therapies.
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