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Western medicine has no cure for neuropathy. Yet most western doctors will frown on the idea of using an old Eastern medical approach to treat it.<\/p>\nWestern medicine has no cure for neuropathy. Yet most western doctors will frown on the idea of using an old Eastern medical approach to treat it.<\/p>\n
That is, except for a team of German and Chinese scientists that decided to put this ancient approach to a test, with amazing results, as presented in this new study published in the journal Phytomedicine.<\/p>\n
Best of all, this ancient approach has been gaining such momentum lately that you\u2019re very likely to find this treatment option close by.<\/p>\n
The researchers recruited 60 subjects with neuropathy from the HanseMerkur Center for TCM at the University Medical Center, Hamburg-Eppendorf.<\/p>\n
They were physically examined, asked for their subjective experiences of their neuropathy, and then objectively evaluated via nerve conduction studies. The latter is a measurement of the speed at which electrical impulses move through nerves and is the best way to evaluate nerve damage.<\/p>\n
They divided them into two groups: group 1 received acupuncture for 10 weeks whereas group 2 waited for the treatment. Both sides were evaluated after 14 weeks.<\/p>\n
The two groups then swapped, with group 2 receiving the treatment. Both groups were then again evaluated after 28 weeks.<\/p>\n
The acupuncture consisted of ST34 Liangqiu (a muscle above the knee), EX-LE12 Qiduan (at the tips of the toes), and EX-LE8 Bafeng (various spots on the foot) performed on both sides.<\/p>\n
They found the following differences between the treatment and non-treatment periods:<\/p>\n
2.\tThe subjects reported an improvement in pain, cramps, numbness, frequency of symptoms, and unsteadiness of gait.<\/p>\n
3.\tBased on a physical examination, the treatment group scored better on tests such as heel-to-toe walking.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
This is not only a well-designed scientific study, but it is also thorough in the three ways in which it measures improvement.<\/p>\n
In fact, this is the first ever study to use nerve conduction studies to measure the improvements in nerve function in response to acupuncture.<\/p>\n