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Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (AOM) has been employed as a health care modality for over 8,000 years. It is based on a complex diagnostic system designed to both prevent and treat disease. It is well documented that preventing disease is the most cost-effective way to address health issues. Currently, Oriental Medicine (inclusive of acupuncture and herbal medicine) serves over a billion people globally.
According to the 2009 report published by Society for Acupuncture Research, “Healthcare settings appropriate for integration of acupuncture are: post-surgical healing, neurobiological rehabilitation, pain management onsite and offsite, reproductive services and in oncology as an adjunct for the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation, as well as anxiety. Acupuncture can be utilized as a support for outpatient services, treating an array of symptoms of many conditions.”
- Serotonin (5-HT, 5-hydrxytryptamine)
- Norepinephrine
- Dopamine
Acupuncture for Pre-surgical Patients
Optimum time for treatment: 2 days before surgery
- Promotes relaxation
- Prevents infection
- Prevents side effects
- Alleviates symptoms
Acupuncture
on Post-Surgical Patients
Optimum time for treatment:
2 days post-surgery, daily treatment is advised to help control pain, improve urination and bowel habit
1 week post-surgery to help decrease swelling, pain control, alleviate symptoms from surgery and medication
2 weeks post-surgery to prevent scar tissue contraction
- Decrease swelling
- Improve mental alertness
- Improve intestinal motility and urination
- Shorten recovery time
- Promote incision healing
- Enhance the effects of chemotherapy and decrease tumor resistance
- Alleviate side effects of chemotherapy
- Acupuncture should be given 24-hours before chemotherapy
- Acupuncture should be done 1-2 hours before chemotherapy treatment
- Help with the following side effects: fatigue, nausea, vomiting, hair loss, vertigo, sensitivity to cold, shortness of breath, loss of appetite, bleeding, infection, low blood counts, toxicity, diarrhea, sexual dysfunction, neuropathy, hepatic dysfunction
- Helps with the following side effects: fatigue, low white blood cell count, anemia, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, skin burns, hair loss, infertility
- Reduce toxicity
- Alleviate symptoms
- Improve bodily functions
- Acupuncture should be started a few weeks before the bone marrow transplant to prepare the body for the transplant
- Helps with jaundice, ascites, hepatomegaly, bacterial infections, fungal infections, viral infections
- Acupuncture should be done for 1-4 weeks after transplant
- Completed Studies
- Acupuncture for the treatment of pancreatic cancer pain
- Acupuncture for hot flashes in breast cancer patients
- Acupuncture for post-thoracotomy pain
- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Changes Associated with Salivation following Acupuncture
- Acupuncture for pain and dysfunction after neck dissection
- Acupuncture for Xerostomia (dry mouth)
- Ongoing Studies
- Acupuncture for chronic fatigue in cancer patients
- Acupuncture for reduction of post-colectomy ileus in colorectal patients
