New research suggests that electroacupuncture not only alleviates osteoarthritic knee pain, but it may do so, in part, by enhancing the gut microbiota to modulate inflammation.[mfn]Wang TQ, et al. Effect of Electroacupuncture on Gut...
September is Pain Awareness Month, highlighting the most common reason patients visit their health care providers including integrative health (IH) providers, e.g., acupuncturist, chiropractor, massage therapist, naturopath. One of the more common conditions resulting...
Osteoarthritis is the most common type of arthritis and most commonly occurs in the hands, knees, hips, and spine. According to the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH),...
An article in the December 17, 2019 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), highlighted the outcome of a systematic review designed to look at a rational clinical examination to identify the presence of a...
The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NIH), reported a December 2018 randomized clinical trial of eight weekly treatments (lasting 60 minutes each), then randomly assigned 60 minute-massage every two weeks up to...
Osteoarthritis is a widespread chronic disease seen as a continuum of clinical occurrences within several phases, which go from synovial inflammation and microscopic changes of bone and cartilage to painful destructive changes of all...
Glucosamine and chondroitin are both produced naturally in the body and are structural components of cartilage. In general chondroitin alone, has not been shown to be effective in reducing pain in hip or knee...