ArticleJournal of personalized medicine2021
Analgesia Effect of Verum and Sham Acupuncture Treatments in Primary Dysmenorrhea: A MRI Pilot Study.
Article in Journal of personalized medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Global research trends of acupuncture therapy on cancer pain: A bibliometric and visualized study.Frontiers in oncology · 2023Pooled it
- How does pretreatment expectancy influence pain outcomes with electroacupuncture and battlefield acupuncture in cancer survivors?: Pretreatment expectancy and pain reduction by acupuncture.Integrative medicine research · 2024Article
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- Risk and characteristics of Bell's palsy in adults as an adverse event following COVID-19 vaccination: a retrospective study.Acta neurologica Belgica · 2023Article
- Changes in brain structure and related functional connectivity during menstruation in women with primary dysmenorrhea.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2023Article
- Revealing the Central Mechanism of Acupuncture for Primary Dysmenorrhea Based on Neuroimaging: A Narrative Review.Pain research & management · 2023Review
- Therapeutic modulation of pain-related affective disorders by acupuncture: Mechanistic review.Molecular painReview
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Abstract
Acupuncture is an alternative treatment for primary dysmenorrhea (PDM). However, mechanisms by which acupuncture exerts its analgesic properties are still unclear. This study aimed to explore the cerebral blood flow (CBF) response to verum and sham acupuncture treatments, and further investigate whether pre-treatment CBF is capable of assessing symptom changes after interventions. A total of 11 PDM patients in the verum group and 12 patients in the sham group participated in this study. Pain rating index (PRI), CBF, and gonadal hormone levels were acquired before and after 8-week treatments. Both verum and sham acupuncture treatments exert its analgesic effect on PDM after intervention as PRI reduced (
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