Audette JF, Ryan AH. The role of acupuncture in pain management.
Phys Med Rehabil Clin N Am 2004; 15: 749–72, v.
Address: JF Audette
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School, USA Chen HM, Chen CH. Effects of acupressure at the Sanyinjiao point on primary dysmenorrhoea.
Address: HM Chen
Assistant Professor, Chung Hwa College of Medical Technology, Tainan, Taiwan Chen MH, Chen MH, Huang JS. Cervical subdural empyema following acupuncture.
J Clin Neurosci 2004;
11: 909–11. [
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Address: MH Chen
Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Cathay General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Colbert AP, Hammerschlag R, Aickin M, McNames J. Reliability of the Prognos electrodermal device for measurements of electrical skin resistance at acupuncture points.
J Altern Complement Med 2004; 10: 610–16.
Address: AP Colbert
Kaiser-Permanente Center for Health Research, Portland, Oregon, USA Dullenkopf A, Schmitz A, Lamesic G et al. The influence of acupressure on the monitoring of acoustic evoked potentials in unsedated adult volunteers.
Anesth Analg 2004; 99: 1147–51.
Address: A Dullenkopf
Department of Anesthesia, University Children’s Hospital, Switzerland Hay EM, Barlas P, Foster N et al. Is acupuncture a useful adjunct to physiotherapy for older adults with knee pain?: The “acupuncture, physiotherapy and exercise” (APEX) study.
BMC Musculoskelet Disord 2004; 5: 31.
Address: EM Hay
Primary Care Sciences, Keele University, Keele, ST5 5BG, UK Hope-Allan N, Adams J, Sibbritt D, Tracy S. The use of acupuncture in maternity care: a pilot study evaluating the acupuncture service in an Australian hospital antenatal clinic.
Complement Ther Nurs Midwifery 2004;
10: 229–32. [
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Address: Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, New South Wales, Australia Litscher G, Rachbauer D, Ropele S et al. Acupuncture using laser needles modulates brain function: first evidence from functional transcranial Doppler sonography and functional magnetic resonance imaging.
Lasers in Med Sci 2004; 19: 6–11.
Address: G Litscher
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Research in Anesthesia and Critical Care, Medical University of Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 29, 8036, Austria Macpherson H, Scullion A, Thomas KJ, Walters S. Patient reports of adverse events associated with acupuncture treatment: a prospective national survey.
Qual Saf Health Care 2004;
13: 349–55. [
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Address: H Macpherson
University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK Molsberger AF, Mau J, Gotthardt H et al. Designing an acupuncture study to meet evidence-based medical criteria – methodological considerations for logistic design and development of treatment interventions arising from the German randomized controlled acupuncture trial on chronic shoulder pain (GRASP).
Eur J Med Res 2004; 9: 405–11.
Address: AF Molsberger
Forschungsgruppe Akupunktur, Kasernenstr. 1b, Düsseldorf, D-40213, Germany Napadow V, Makris N, Liu J et al. Effects of electroacupuncture versus manual acupuncture on the human brain as measured by fMRI.
Hum Brain Mapp 2004; 24: 193–205.
Address: V Napadow
Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA Ng DK, Chow PY, Ming SP et al. A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of acupuncture for the treatment of childhood persistent allergic rhinitis.
Pediatrics 2004;
114: 1242–7. [
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Address: DK Ng
Department of Paediatrics, Kwong Wah Hospital, 25 Waterloo Rd, Kowloon, SAR, Hong Kong Ouyang H, Chen JD. Review article: therapeutic roles of acupuncture in functional gastrointestinal disorders.
Aliment Pharmacol Ther 2004;
20: 831–41. [
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Address: H Ouyang
Transneuronix and Veterans Research and Education Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA Rohrbock RB, Hammer J, Vogelsang H et al. Acupuncture has a placebo effect on rectal perception but not on distensibility and spatial summation: a study in health and IBS.
Am J Gastroenterol 2004;
99: 1990–7. [
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Address: RB Rohrbock
Abteilung fur Gastroenterologie und Hepatologie, University of Vienna, Austria Tjen-A-Looi SC, Li P, Longhurst JC. Medullary substrate and differential cardiovascular responses during stimulation of specific acupoints.
Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2004; 287: R852–62.
Address: SC Tjen-A-Looi
Medical Science 1 C240, College of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-4075, USA Vas J, Mendez C, Perea-Milla E et al. Acupuncture as a complementary therapy to the pharmacological treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee: randomised controlled trial.
BMJ 2004; 329: 1216.
Address: J Vas
Pain Treatment Unit, Centro de Salud ‘Dos Hermanas A’ (Distrito Sanitario Sevilla-Sur), Dos Hermanas, 41700, Spain Vickers AJ, Rees RW, Zollman CE et al. Acupuncture of chronic headache disorders in primary care: randomised controlled trial and economic analysis.
Health Technol Assess 2004; 8: 1–50.
Address: AJ Vickers
Integrative Medicine Service, Biostatistics Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA Vickers AJ. Statistical reanalysis of four recent randomized trials of acupuncture for pain using analysis of covariance.
Clin J Pain 2004;
20: 319–23. [
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Address: Integrative Medicine Service, Biostatistics Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021, USA Villano LM, White AR. Alternative therapies for tobacco dependence.
Med Clin North Am 2004;
88: 1607–21. [
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Address: LM Villano
Center for Tobacco Control, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, 225 Community Drive, South Entrance, Great Neck, NY 11021, USA Whittaker P. Laser acupuncture: past, present, and future.
Lasers Med Sci 2004; Sep 3: (Epub ahead of print)
Address: Departments of Emergency Medicine and Anesthesiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Avenue North, Worcester, Massachusetts, 01655, USA 