ReviewEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2019
Stimulation Parameters of Manual Acupuncture and Their Measurement.
Review in Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The effect of acupuncture on quality of life in patients with irritable bowel syndrome: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2025Pooled it
- The Effectiveness of Acupuncture on Myofascial Trigger Points Versus Traditional Chinese Medicine Acupoints for Treating Plantar Fasciitis With Low Back Pain: A Study Protocol for a Randomised Clinical Trial [Letter].Journal of pain research · 2025Article
- A robot arm-assisted acupuncture system with motion and force monitoring: establishment and validation.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2025Article
- Influence of acupuncture intensity on analgesic effects in AA rat models.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2024Article
- Manual acupuncture for neuromusculoskeletal disorders: The selection of stimulation parameters and corresponding effects.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
- The Influence of Acupuncture Parameters on Efficacy and the Possible Use of Acupuncture in Combination with or as a Substitute for Drug Therapy in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2022Review
- Is Acupuncture Safe and Effective Treatment for Migraine? A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials.Cureus · 2022Review
- Meridian acupuncture plus massage for children with spastic cerebral palsy.American journal of translational research · 2021Article
- Standardizing therapeutic parameters of acupuncture in vascular dementia rats.Brain and behavior · 2020Article
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Abstract
The therapeutic effect of manual acupuncture (MA) is closely related to the stimulation amount. In the clinical studies, the stimulation amount is often difficult to be determined. The reason is that there are many parameters affecting the stimulation amount, including manipulation selection, treatment time, needling velocity, and force, and no complete and reasonable scheme is available for the measurement of stimulation parameters. This paper reviewed the theoretical and laboratory measurement studies on MA stimulation, summarized 4 types of available parameters according to the theory of physics, and compared the advantages and disadvantages of the existing methods of parameter measurement. Such efforts are hoped for providing reference for the establishment of the stimulation parameter system of MA and possible technical solutions for future measurement experiments.
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