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New Developments in Acupuncture: Turtles and Motion-Style Treatments « Science-Based Medicine Home Contact Privacy Policy Website Terms of Use About SBM Reference Links Recent Comments Articles Archives New Developments in Acupuncture: Turtles Select Month and Motion-Style Treatments Posted by Harriet Hall on June 4, 2013 (33 Comments) Support science-based Note: Lest you think that SBM is becoming “turtles all the way medicine… down,” let me apologize for the duplication and explain that I had already written this right before I read Mark Crislip’s Turtle Agony article on Friday. My focus is different, and turtles were only a small part of my article, so I decided to leave the turtles in. If you prefer to avoid a turtle overdose, you can just skip the Join The Society for SBM Turtlepuncture section and go on to the Motion Style Acupuncture section. They are clearly labeled for your Buy an e-book: convenience. SBM e-Books for Kindle The “science” of acupuncture trudges ever onward without really SBM e-Books for iBooks getting anywhere. New developments include a report of turtlepuncture and a study about treating low back pain with a new SBM e-Books for Nook kind of “motion style” acupuncture using passive or active movement while the needles are in place. I found the first amusing and the second unconvincing. RSS http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/new-developments-in-acupuncture-turtles-and-motion-style-treatments/[12/27/2014 12:49:46 AM] New Developments in Acupuncture: Turtles and Motion-Style Treatments « Science-Based Medicine Turtlepuncture Twitter Facebook Categories Acupuncture Announcements Basic Science Book & movie reviews Cancer A group of Ridley sea turtles were rescued after being stranded Chiropractic during a cold spell that left them hypothermic and unable to Clinical Trials function. In addition to the usual rescue and rehabilitation efforts, Computers & Internet two of the turtles, Dexter and Fletcher Moon, were treated with Critical Thinking acupuncture. It was intended to “decrease inflammation and swelling on their front flippers, restore a full range of motion on Dentistry those limbs and help the animals regain their appetites.” It Energy Medicine allegedly worked: their appetite and the use of their limbs Epidemiology improved. But without any controlled observations, this is only an Evolution anecdotal report and means very little. They might have recovered just as well without the treatment, for all we know. Faith Healing & Spirituality Health Fraud Herbs & Supplements I searched for studies on turtle acupuncture. I found studies on the History miraculous turtle eight meridians method, the eight methods of Homeopathy intelligent turtle, turtle probing needling, green turtle searching and boring acupuncture, the extraordinary turtle flying method, and Humor turtle probing the cave needle manipulation, and one case report of Legal treating an American red-footed tortoise. Nothing on treating Medical Academia turtles. Medical Ethics How did they know where to put the needles? They worked with a Naturopathy veterinarian to find analogies between the anatomy of turtles and Neuroscience/Mental Health other animals. And acupuncture points in animals are based on http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/new-developments-in-acupuncture-turtles-and-motion-style-treatments/[12/27/2014 12:49:46 AM] New Developments in Acupuncture: Turtles and Motion-Style Treatments « Science-Based Medicine analogies with humans, sometimes with amusing results: diagrams Nutrition for horse acupuncture show a gall bladder meridian but horses Obstetrics & gynecology don’t have gall bladders! Ophthalmology I’m glad the turtles got better, but I don’t give acupuncture the Pharmaceuticals credit. Politics and Regulation Motion Style Acupuncture Public Health Religion A Korean study was published in the journal Pain. It was a Science and Medicine multicenter, randomized, controlled, comparative effectiveness trial with a total of 58 patients with acute low back pain. It compared Science and the Media one session of motion style acupuncture to one injection of Surgical Procedures diclofenac. Patients in the acupuncture group improved more than Traditional Chinese those in the diclofenac group. Medicine What Is It? The authors tell us that motion style acupuncture Vaccines treatment (MSAT) is a relatively novel method that has been Veterinary medicine recently used increasingly often in South Korea, but the only reference they offer refers to two case reports. In their MSAT protocol, two assistants stood on both sides of the patient with their arms around his waist. Acupuncture needles were inserted at points selected according to Traditional Chinese Medicine and previous clinical experience. The deqi sensation was not sought, but practitioners “occasionally” manually stimulated the needle at the GV16 point. With the needles in place, the patients were asked 8 Issues Caused By Tattoos WebMD to walk with assistance. As walking improved, less support was provided. When the patient was walking without support, the needles were removed and he was asked to continue walking for 1-2 minutes. The patients were given verbal encouragement. 5 Exercises That Age You FASTER (Avoid #1 at All Why Diclofenac? The comparison treatment was a 75 mg Costs) intramuscular injection of diclofenac sodium, a nonsteroidal anti- Old School New Body eBook inflammatory drug or NSAID. The rationale for choosing it as a comparison was unclear. NSAIDs have been proven effective for acute low back pain, but they are usually given orally. A recent view of acute low back pain treatment does not mention the IM Common Behaviors Adults option. Neither does the Mayo Clinic website. I couldn’t find any with ADD and ADHD Exhibit Health Central sources that recommended IM administration over the oral route. I’m guessing they chose it for this study because it was a http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/new-developments-in-acupuncture-turtles-and-motion-style-treatments/[12/27/2014 12:49:46 AM] New Developments in Acupuncture: Turtles and Motion-Style Treatments « Science-Based Medicine convenient way to give one strong, rapidly acting dose for comparison with one acupuncture treatment. 87 Yr Old Trainer Shares Secret To Losing Weight Results. Pain was assessed on a scale according to subjective Athletic Greens patient self-reports, and disability was assessed by a questionnaire at 30 min, 2 weeks, 4 weeks and 24 weeks after treatment. The outcomes were significantly better for MSAT for the earlier times but not at 24 weeks. Laminate Countertops: They're Not Just for Grandma's House, Does This Really Support Acupuncture? They called this a Anymore! comparative effectiveness trial. Comparative effectiveness trials Formica are typically used to compare established interventions to see which of two effective treatments is more effective. They are not intended to explore a new, untested treatment like MSAT. There are problems with this study. The subjects were Koreans who may See Touching Portraits of Moms With Their Kids have been culturally predisposed to expect results from The Cut acupuncture. Endpoints were subjective. Blinding was not possible. Instead of a single treatment and an atypical control, it would have been better to compare typical MSAT treatment to standard conventional treatment of low back pain. Please Don’t Retire At 62. Here’s Why. What bothers me the most is that the MSAT group essentially got The Motley Fool two treatments: acupuncture and assisted mobilization. I’d like to know what would happen if they got the second without the first. Maybe the needles were superfluous. Top 8 Rock Albums of All Time Patients with acute back pain avoid walking because it hurts. If The Daily 8 they avoid using the muscles due to fear of pain, they can become conditioned to expect pain. Often they have severe pain when they first start walking, but if they can keep walking the pain tends to diminish. Patients who remain active recover faster; that’s why bed Celebrities We Lost Respect rest is no longer recommended. And a recent study showed For In 2013 statistically and clinically significant benefit from cognitive MadameNoire functional therapy. This involves re-framing and confidence- building as described here. So what if all back pain patients were encouraged to walk and 20 Most Terrifying Spiders on were assisted with the support and cheerleading? This Earth Rant Pets http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/new-developments-in-acupuncture-turtles-and-motion-style-treatments/[12/27/2014 12:49:46 AM] New Developments in Acupuncture: Turtles and Motion-Style Treatments « Science-Based Medicine acupuncture study would have been a far better study if it had included a motion-style treatment control group without the acupuncture component: MST instead of MSAT. Conclusion You Won't Believe Who Abraham Lincoln's Relative Is Color me skeptical. I question the use of acupuncture on turtles Ancestry and on non-chelonian patients with acute back pain. The evidence doesn’t support it. I’m optimistic that assisted walking with physical support and encouragement might prove to be an effective treatment for patients with acute low back pain. I hope further 7 Credit Cards You Should Not studies will investigate that. 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