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Acupuncture Research
 

Over the past 20 years, there have been over 13,000 studies of acupuncture completed in over 60 countries. A wide variety of clinical areas have been studied including, pain, inflammation, stroke, migraine, peripheral neuropathy and many others. 

The evidence of this huge number of studies can be hard for any person to make sense of. Fortunately, the entire literature base was summarized in 2010 by the Australian Department of Veteran Affairs. This review was updated in 2014 by the US Department of Veteran Affairs and then again in 2017 by John McDonald and Stephen Janz, the authors of the Acupuncture Evidence Project. The Acupuncture Evidence Project found evidence of effect for 117 out of the 122 conditions they evaluated.

Though there is high-level clinical evidence for acupuncture treatment in a great number of health conditions, the adoption of this information into official medical guidelines can take some time. A recent review looked at clinical guideline recommendations from around the world made by groups including government health institutions, national guidelines, and specialty medical groups. They found 2189 positive recommendations for acupuncture for 204 health issues. These official recommendations tell us that the quality and quantity of evidence for acupuncture is now clearly acknowledged by medical experts and that acupuncture is no longer considered 'alternative.' Acupuncture is in fact, one of the most widely proven and recommended treatments in modern medicine.

 

Additional Resources:

Neuro-Acupuncture Institute

Evidence Based Acupuncture 

 

The Acupuncture Evidence Project – A Comparative Literature Review 2017 – Acupuncture.org.au. 2017;:1–81. https://www.acupuncture.org.au/resources/publications/the-acupuncture-evidence-project-a-comparative-literature-review-2017/

Birch S, Lee MS, Alraek T, et al. Overview of Treatment Guidelines and Clinical Practical Guidelines That Recommend the Use of Acupuncture: A Bibliometric Analysis. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine Published Online First: 18 June 2018. doi:10.1089/acm.2018.0092

Yang Y, Rao C, Yin T, Wang S, Shi H, Yan X, Zhang L, Meng X, Gu W, Du Y, Hong F. Application and underlying mechanism of acupuncture for the nerve repair after peripheral nerve injury: remodeling of nerve system. Front Cell Neurosci. 2023 Oct 24;17:1253438. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2023.1253438. PMID: 37941605; PMCID: PMC10627933.