Publications by authors named "Liao-Jun Luo"
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- The study investigates the characteristics and rules of acupoint sensitization in patients with knee osteoarthritis (KOA) through a combination of literature and expert insight.
- Key acupoints frequently used in KOA treatment were identified, and experiments were conducted with 814 KOA patients and 217 healthy individuals to measure various pain thresholds and acupoint temperatures.
- Results indicate that KOA patients show heightened acupoint temperatures and lowered pain thresholds compared to healthy subjects, with machine learning accurately predicting acupoint sensitization in KOA, providing valuable insights for diagnosis and assessment of the disease.
Objective: To observe the influence of acupuncture on microcirculation perfusion of the pericardium meridian and heart in acute myocardial ischemia (AMI) rats and evaluate whether acupuncture can simultaneously affect the meridians and corresponding viscera. Additionally, acupoints at different meridians were compared and whether they exert the same effects was discussed.
Methods: Totally 32 Sprague-Dawley rats were subjected to left anterior descending (LAD) ligation to develop an AMI model.
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to investigate where pain sensitivity points are located on the body surface of patients with knee osteoarthritis (KOA).
- Researchers tested 916 KOA patients, probing 3,618 pain sensitivity points, finding that most points were sensitized and closely located to key acupoints.
- Results indicated that pain sensitivity points were primarily found around specific acupoints in the knee area, suggesting that their presence may be related to the severity of pain experienced, as measured by the McGill pain questionnaire.
Background: Migraine is a common neurological disease, which burdens individuals and society all over the world. Acupuncture, an important method in Traditional Chinese Medicine, is widely used in clinical practice as a treatment for migraine. Several systematic reviews (SRs) have investigated the effectiveness and safety of acupuncture for migraine.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Knee osteoarthritis (KOA), known as severe degenerative arthritis, commonly occurs in middle-aged and elderly people all over the world. Acupuncture as traditional oriental intervention is getting widely used and several systematic reviews (SRs) have reported the effectiveness of acupuncture on pain relief and functional recovery in patients with KOA.
Objective: Conducting an overview of SRs to provide more reliable evidence-based medical references for clinical practitioners and researchers of the effectiveness and safety of acupuncture for KOA.