Alternative Medicine News

Data from two studies presented at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention showed significant benefits of yoga for depression and anxious depression.

Oral tablets containing purified tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, failed to improve chronic abdominal pain better than placebo in a phase 2 randomized controlled trial.

Mindfulness practice was effective for reducing stress and depression and increasing personal awareness in women with overweight or obesity, according to findings published in Obesity.

Women with stress urinary incontinence who received treatment with electroacupuncture involving the lumbosacral region treatment had less urine leakage after 6 weeks when compared with sham electroacupuncture, according to findings published in JAMA.

Compared with the use of a standardized exercise program alone, the addition of radiofrequency denervation to a standardized exercise program did not lead to improvement in chronic low back pain among patients with pain originating from areas such as the facet joints, intervertebral discs or sacroiliac joints.

Yoga caused musculoskeletal pain and exacerbated existing physical injuries, according to research recently published in the Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies.

Among Chinese women with polycystic ovary syndrome, the use of acupuncture with or without clomiphene did not increase live births, compared with control acupuncture plus placebo, according to research recently published in JAMA.

PHILADELPHIA —  Given the limitations of pharmacotherapies in treating insomnia, alternative therapies that do not involve medications should be contemplated to provide relief, according to a presenter here at the annual meeting of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.

For patients with non-specific chronic low back pain, a manualized yoga program was non-inferior to physical therapy for both function and pain, according to recently published results.

Unmet needs in Western medicine have made traditional Chinese medicine a more common alternative for primary and secondary CVD prevention, but more randomized trials of such therapies are needed, according to a review in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.