Acupuncture for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is not just “feeling tired”.  WebMD (link) defines it as: “..a...

Acupuncture Effects – just in your mind? One of the knocks against acupuncture is that it’s effect is merely “psychological”.  The...

The Skeptics’ Claim We will always hear skeptics harp on and on how there is supposedly no evidence for acupuncture’s effectivity.  When...

Spinal Cord Injury, Bladder and Bowel Control Spinal cord injury is truly a traumatic experience.  By traumatic I mean more than just the...

A Ridiculous Headline A recent study, which I myself blogged about (Acupuncture in Complementary Cancer Care: Easing Joint Pain From...

I have often mentioned to my medical students that the acupoint PC 6 Neiguan is among the acupuncture points most frequently studied in...

I recall the story of a famous surgeon. He was a reputed miracle worker whose talent with the scalpel was unparalleled. Countless lives...

Ever since I personally got involved in sports medicine, I’ve been getting questions about acupuncture for Achilles Tendinitis.  While...

The Holy Grail in medical clinical research is the double-blind, placebo controlled study.  This is the one thing that skeptics claim...

One of the things that has always bothered me as a practitioner trained in both western medicine and Chinese medicine is how to explain...

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...

This abstract is taken from http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-230X/12/150/abstract Note that this article does not push for acupuncture...