Acupuncture & Low Back Pain
September 2009. Filed in: Acupuncture | Pain
ACUPUNCTURE will be trialled in emergency departments following its success in lowering pain levels in patients at a busy public hospital.The National Health and Medical Research Council has granted more than $400,000 for a three-year clinical trial.
I found the following article in the Melbourne Age. Thought you might like to have a read. $400,000 means they are now taking us more seriously. I look forward to the final results. Of course, I am biased, so I'm sure they'll find Acupuncture extremely effective. My own clinical experience of the past 22 years tells me I am right about this.
Acupuncture Trial Will Get Straight to the point
LOUISE HALL
June 26, 2009
ACUPUNCTURE will be trialled in emergency departments following its success in lowering pain levels in patients at a busy public hospital.
The National Health and Medical Research Council has granted more than $400,000 for a three-year clinical trial.
During the trial, 400 people will receive drug therapy, acupuncture or both to treat acute migraine, back pain and ankle injuries.
Dr Robyn Parker, an emergency physician and qualified medical acupuncturist, will tell the Winter Symposium of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine in Darwin today that a pilot program at the Northern Hospital in Epping has shown promising results in managing patients' pain and nausea.
Dr Parker said patients who arrived at casualty could choose to be treated by final-year or graduate acupuncture students from RMIT in conjunction with standard medical practice.
"Patients reported a significant reduction in pain and most said they would have it again," she said. The multiple emergency department acupuncture trials will employ traditional Chinese medicine practitioners to work in emergency, a first for the Western world.
Acupuncture Trial Will Get Straight to the point
LOUISE HALL
June 26, 2009
ACUPUNCTURE will be trialled in emergency departments following its success in lowering pain levels in patients at a busy public hospital.
The National Health and Medical Research Council has granted more than $400,000 for a three-year clinical trial.
During the trial, 400 people will receive drug therapy, acupuncture or both to treat acute migraine, back pain and ankle injuries.
Dr Robyn Parker, an emergency physician and qualified medical acupuncturist, will tell the Winter Symposium of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine in Darwin today that a pilot program at the Northern Hospital in Epping has shown promising results in managing patients' pain and nausea.
Dr Parker said patients who arrived at casualty could choose to be treated by final-year or graduate acupuncture students from RMIT in conjunction with standard medical practice.
"Patients reported a significant reduction in pain and most said they would have it again," she said. The multiple emergency department acupuncture trials will employ traditional Chinese medicine practitioners to work in emergency, a first for the Western world.