Philip Niño Tan-Gatue
Acupuncture for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Meta Analysis
Acupuncture for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is not just “feeling tired”. WebMD (link) defines it as: “..a...
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Philip Niño Tan-Gatue
- Oct 5, 2014
- 3 min
Acupuncture Effects Not Just Psychological
Acupuncture Effects – just in your mind? One of the knocks against acupuncture is that it’s effect is merely “psychological”. The...
Philip Niño Tan-Gatue
- May 13, 2014
- 2 min
Real Acupuncture versus Sham – Again
The Skeptics’ Claim We will always hear skeptics harp on and on how there is supposedly no evidence for acupuncture’s effectivity. When...
Philip Niño Tan-Gatue
- Jan 5, 2014
- 2 min
Acupuncture For Bladder Control in Spinal Cord Injury Patients
Spinal Cord Injury, Bladder and Bowel Control Spinal cord injury is truly a traumatic experience. By traumatic I mean more than just the...
Philip Niño Tan-Gatue
- Dec 27, 2013
- 4 min
Biased Journalism About Acupuncture Again
A Ridiculous Headline A recent study, which I myself blogged about (Acupuncture in Complementary Cancer Care: Easing Joint Pain From...
Philip Niño Tan-Gatue
- Apr 12, 2013
- 2 min
Pre-Operative Acupuncture to Prevent Opioid-Induced Nausea and Vomiting
I have often mentioned to my medical students that the acupoint PC 6 Neiguan is among the acupuncture points most frequently studied in...
Philip Niño Tan-Gatue
- Feb 1, 2013
- 3 min
Pre-Op Jitters? Acupuncture Helps!
I recall the story of a famous surgeon. He was a reputed miracle worker whose talent with the scalpel was unparalleled. Countless lives...
Philip Niño Tan-Gatue
- Jan 6, 2013
- 2 min
The Achilles Heel
Ever since I personally got involved in sports medicine, I’ve been getting questions about acupuncture for Achilles Tendinitis. While...
Philip Niño Tan-Gatue
- Nov 14, 2012
- 2 min
Acupuncture Improves Sleep in Postmenopausal Women
The Holy Grail in medical clinical research is the double-blind, placebo controlled study. This is the one thing that skeptics claim...
Philip Niño Tan-Gatue
- Oct 30, 2012
- 3 min
Scientific Proof of Five Transporting Points Selection in Acupuncture
One of the things that has always bothered me as a practitioner trained in both western medicine and Chinese medicine is how to explain...
Philip Niño Tan-Gatue
- Oct 29, 2012
- 2 min
Mai Men Dong Tang for Asthma
I love it when science backs up traditional chinese medicine. Right now I’ve put up the abstract of this study done in Taiwan but...
Philip Niño Tan-Gatue
- Oct 27, 2012
- 2 min
Acupuncture Helps Irritable Bowel Syndrome
This abstract is taken from http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-230X/12/150/abstract Note that this article does not push for acupuncture...
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