Techniques
How a point is stimulated: needles, current, heat, suction, pressure and light, and what each looks like in a trial.
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Acupressure
Pressing points with fingers or wristbands, what Cochrane reviews and trials found for nausea, labour and self-administered routines, and how shiatsu and tuina relate to it.
Modern research · Anyone · 7 min
Dry needling
Needling of myofascial trigger points by physiotherapists and others: where the method and its name came from, how it overlaps with acupuncture at ashi points, the scope-of-practice disputes, and what systematic reviews and adverse-event surveys report.
Modern research · Anyone · 11 min
Electroacupuncture
Current passed through needles or through skin pads over the points: frequency, intensity, devices and their regulation, how it differs from TENS, and the trials that used it.
Modern research · Anyone · 8 min
Laser acupuncture
Low-level laser applied to points without a needle: the wavelengths, power and doses trials use, why it allows a blinded sham, and what trials and reviews found.
Modern research · Anyone · 6 min
Point injection
Injecting vitamins, saline, drugs, herbal extracts or bee venom into acupuncture points: what is injected, how one US state regulates it, what reviews of the trials found and what their comparisons can show, and the adverse events reported.
Modern research · Anyone · 7 min
Press needles
Press-tack and intradermal needles left in the skin for days: what they are, how long trials leave them, the needle-free placebos that make double-blind trials possible, what those trials and the reviews found, and the adverse events recorded.
Modern research · Anyone · 8 min
Thread embedding
Catgut and absorbable sutures implanted at acupuncture points: how it is done and repeated, the threads used, what reviews of the obesity trials found against sham, and the nodules, granulomas and infections reported.
Modern research · Anyone · 9 min