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Joshua Dunsky has been practicing as a chiropractic Physician for 17 years in the Metro West area Boston, Massachusetts. He is the Clinic Director of Dunsky Rehabilitation and Spine Center and Boston Scoliosis Specialists in Framingham Massachhusetts, a wellness center that has a focus on peripheral neuropathy, spinal degeneration, scoliosis and the GUT. He has lectured extensively on Neuropathy, Scoliosis and Telomere Science in relation to aging and disease. He presented Telomere Science as a Speaker at the Anti-Aging/Preventative Medicine Conference London 2013. He was the past President and Founder of the New England Spinal Decompression Association, LLC (2006), President and Founder of the American Spinal Decompression Association, LLC (2006) and President of The American Cancer Society, South Middlesex Chapter (2003-2005). He is a member of the American Academy of Pain Management and American Academy of Anti-Aging Physicians.

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Shortening of the telomere at the chromosome ends is recognized to inhibit the lifespan of human cells and provoke a signal for the ignition of cellular senescence. To continually proliferate with proper DNA replication and to minimize cellular disturbance, cells must rebuild and sustain telomere length. Telomerase can achieve this due to it’s reverse transcriptase activity. Eventhough all somatic cells have the telomerase gene, the activity itself is surpressed at the regulatory element at birth. The telomerase enzyme is suggested to be an essential factor in cell immortalization. In this review, we discuss the structure and function of telomere and telomerase and their roles in cell immortalization and aging, simultaneously the experimental studies of telomerase assays and disease. Finally, we discuss the potential use of inhibitors of telomerase in humans and the role it plays in “youthful aging”.

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Wen-Long Hu is the Vice Director of the Department of Chinese Medicine at Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Assistant Professor at Fooyin University, Kaohsiung Medical University, and Chang Gung University. He has the experiences of clinical practice in low level laser therapy (LLLT) for 20 years and in acupuncture for 25 years. He is an invited speaker for lectures in LLLT at many symposiums held by some medical associations. Recently, he is invited to instruct physicians to practice LLLT in workshops. He also involved in researches on LLLT and acupuncture, e.g. obesity, metabolic syndrome, stroke, dementia, Parkinsonism, myofascial pain, arthralgia, radiculopathy and autism, etc.

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Objective: To explore laser acupuncture’s role in modern medicine with a view to strengthen and promote the appropriate use in health care systems. Methods: We conducted a PubMed search to obtain a fair sample of laser acupuncture clinical trials published in English till 2011. Each article was reviewed for a physiologic rationale, as well as study designs and outcomes, experimental and control interventions. Results: Forty-eight laser acupuncture clinical trials were identified. Evidence was found to support the use of laser acupuncture in the treatment of acute or chronic pain from different origins, postoperative nausea and vomiting, nocturnal enuresis, menopausal symptoms, allergic dermatoses, alcohol addiction, smoking cessation, obesity and for cerebral cortical activations. Conclusion: Laser acupuncture integrates the positive effects of acupuncture and low-level lasers, and is therefore effective in the indications of both. In the hands of an experienced physician, laser acupuncture can be used as complementary or alternative treatment in modern medicine.

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Aurea Chun-En Kuo is a medical Doctor at Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital with experience in Acupuncture and a passion for CAM studies. She has been a Member of Chinese Medical Association of Acupuncture (CMAA) and she obtained the documentation of subspecialty in Chinese Dermatology, Acupuncture, and Coventional Western Medicine. Her research topics focus on CAM in treating chronic tinnitus, modern medical devices for meridian analysis such as Ryodoraku, and the epidemiologic characteristics of CAM nursing in Taiwan. Her recent research interest is the basic research of herbs to be applied in the treatment of cancer and sepsis and CAM syndrome differentiation and treatment.

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Temporomandibular disorders (TMDs) refer to a group of related pathologies involving the temporomandibular joints, muscles of mastication, and/or associated structures. TMDs are characterized by symptoms such as pain and decreased maximal mouth opening (MMO). Currently, the standard treatment modality for TMDs is nonsurgical management, based on the results of longstanding clinical research studies. However, many alternative approaches to the treatment of TMDs have arisen, primarily due to the frequency of cases that are refractory to traditional nonsurgical intervention. In many clinical studies, acupuncture has been proven an effective form of pain management, particularly pain of musculoskeletal origin, including TMDs. Within the last decade, there has been a substantial increase in the number of research studies addressing the efficacy of electroacupuncture techniques in the treatment of persistent tissue injury, nerve injury, pain associated with cancer, and visceral pain. These studies indicate that electroacupuncture not only reduces both the sensory and affective components of inflammatory pain but also inhibits neuropathic pain. The mechanism by which electroacupuncture blocks pain results from the activation or inhibition of a variety of bioactive chemicals throughout the peripheral, spinal, and supraspinal pathways. This study aims to analyze the effecacy of electroacupuncture as a treatment method for pain associated with TMDs in the scientific literature.

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Turan Yaman has completed his PhD from Yuzuncu Yil University School of Veterinary Medicine. He has published more than 4 papers in reputed journals.

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Yu-Chiang Hung has completed his PhD from Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, Chang Gung University. He is the Director of the Department of Chinese Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital. He is specialized in Chinese Medicine and has published about 21 papers in reputed journals.

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Objective: To investigate the relationship between the electrical resistance of the skin at BAPs on the main meridians and upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB). Methods: Electrical resistance to direct current at 20 BAPs on the fingers and toes of 100 patients with (38 men, 12 women; 58.20±19.62 years) and without (27 men, 23 women; 49.54±12.12 years) UGIB were measured through EDS. Data were compared through ANOVA, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis, and logistic regression. Results: The initial readings were lower in the UGIB group. Indicator drop values were observed significantly at 9 BAPs (p<0.05) on the bilateral small intestine, bilateral stomach, bilateral circulation, bilateral fibroid degeneration, and right lymph meridians. The area under the ROC curve values of the BAPs on the bilateral small intestine and stomach meridians were larger than 0.5. Logistic regression analysis revealed, when the indicator drop of the BAP on the left stomach meridian increased by one score, the risk of UGIB increased by about 1.545–3.523 times. Discussion & Conclusion: We found significantly different values of UGIB for the BAPs on the stomach and small intestine meridians. The more indicator drop values, the more risk of UGIB. The change in the electrical resistance of the skin measured by EDS at the BAPs on the bilateral small intestine and stomach meridians provides specific information as energy deficiency on UGIB.

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Demirsoy G currently working as an eminent Faculty member at Adnan Menderes University, Turkey. She has published numerous research papers and articles in reputed journals and has various other achievements in the related studies. She has extended her valuable service towards the scientific community with her extensive research work.

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Frequent occurrence of breast cancer, low survival rate, many side effects of treatments and women's health-seeking behavior have caused to increase the usage of complementary and alternative therapies (CAM). In Turkey, breast cancer patients often resorted to CAM methods, but they are tested by limited studies and gain results which do not answer well how frequently they were used and problems were experienced. In this study, we aimed to determine the usage of complementary and alternative treatments in breast cancer patients. This descriptive study collected the data from total 518 members who got breast cancer diagnosis of an association with cancer. We did not do sampling, but we only reached 437 members who agreed to fill out the questionnaire. Data were collected by the questionnaire consisting of 28 questions developed by the researchers and collected via Internet. Data were analyzed with descriptive statistics and Chi-square analysis. It was determined that the majority of women who participated was in the 40-49 age group, married, graduated from university, income and expenses were equivalent and in stage 2 breast cancer. Mostly biological approaches after diagnostic were preferred. 48.7% of women were reported that they used CAM. In the 40-49 age group, married, equivalent income and expenses and patients with second phase in breast cancer used CAM higher than the other groups in the past and now. The most used CAM method was herbal products for treatment. All the CAM users have used at least one herbal method. Women, who were in the survey mostly used CAM to prevent the symptoms. 70% of women also expressed that it partially allowed their recovery. Women got advices and recommandations about CAM methods from their family members (29.6%) and their knowledge (29.6%). The women participating in this study had problems with its cost, conflicting with the treatment and problems such as difficulty to reach more information about methods and lack of access to the methods. 56.3% of CAM users did not share their situation about CAM with health professionals during their treatments, but they also expressed that they would like to receive counseling about CAM methods during treatment. As a result, the majority of breast cancer patients used many CAM methods. If the factors like age, education, stage and income increase, using CAM also increases and approximately half of the patients did not share using CAM with their medical staff. Medical staff who take care of breast cancer patients need to question the status of CAM use, find out a way for them to share their status, give adequate counsulting and also must have sufficient information to guide patients.

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Tsai Kao-Sung has completed his PhD from China Medical University of Taiwan. He is a dermatologist, fellow of Asian Academy of Dermatology and Venereology and director of Taiwanese Dermatological Association. He also lecture on Hung Kuang University and practice on China Medical University Hospital and Guangyan Dermatology Clinic.

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Itch is a major subjective symptoms in dermatitis. Regarding the needle stimulation and moxibustion on LI11 (Quchi) has been shown to exhibit a significant effect for itch in dermatitis, but the efficacy of hypothermic and hyperthermic stimulation on LI11 for itch is not confirmed. We investigate the effect of hypothermic and hyperthermic stimulation on LI11 for itch and skin reaction in atopic dermatitis patients in a translational research. Our study demonstrated that treatment with lower temperature at the LI11 acupoint significantly attenuated pruritogen-induced scratching in animal study; however, this antipruritic effect was not observed with stimulation at the sham point. The antipruritic effect of cold stimulation was blocked by the non-selective transient receptor potential (TRP) channel blocker, suggesting that TRP channels may play an important role in the antipruritic effect of cold stimulation at LI11 in mice. In our clinical trial, subjects stimulated by lower temperature (20℃) and high temperature (40℃) at the LI11 acupoint significantly attenuated itch VAS score and level of IL-31 in serum. However, SCORAD index and POEM index only decreased in high temperature subjects . Conclusions: This study demonstrated that cold stimulation at LI11 attenuated pruritogen-induced scratching behaviour in mice, possibly by a TRP-related pathway. Not only high temperature at the LI11 acupoint significantly attenuated itch VAS scare in subjects with dermatitis but also lower stimulation at LI11 did.

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Frank Yurasek completed his PhD in Traditional Chinese Medicine at Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, PRC, and his MSOM at Midwest College of Oriental Medicine, Chicago. In addition to being in Practice since 1985, he is past Chair of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine at National University of Health Sciences, and Professor of Tuina at Midwest College of Oriental Medicine. He has presented Posters on Acupuncture at several Society of Acupuncture Research Conferences in the U.S. and China, as well as the World Federation of Society of Acupuncture Conferences in Houston, Texas and Toronto, Canada, as well as The Midwest Pain Medicine Society. He was appointed Vice President of WFAS in Beijing in 2014. Dr. Yurasek is Director of Acupuncture for Cook County Health & Hospital Systems, Stroger Hospital Pain Clinic. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Notre Dame University, where he also taught for several years.

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On a trip to West Virginia late last Fall, President Obama underscored reports that: 120 Americans were dying daily from drug overdoses, most of them involving legal prescription drugs; statistics from 2012, showed that enough painkiller prescriptions were written to supply a bottle of them to every American. Recently, the Center for Disease Control noted that 7,000 Americans a day are treated in emergency rooms for drug overdose. In January 2015, in the peer reviewed journal Practical Pain Management, Dr. Forest Tennant, MD, DPH wrote an Editorial “Acknowledging the Failure of Standard Pain Treatment”, citing the recently published “Lange Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2015”. Shannon Brownlee’s book Overtreated- Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer, is based on significant research by a Dartmouth Physician looking at how geography influences healthcare in the USA. Contemporaneously, The Bravewell Collaborative published a study in 2012 of the top 38 hospitals in the USA, who were offering integrated care utilizing massage, acupuncture, and chiropractic, in that order of utilization. In a teleconference entitled “Whose running the circus? The optimization of Integrated Medicine”, a panel from The Center for Optimal Integration discussed patient-centered care that was effective, efficient (not just in outcomes, but also process), and equitable (Accessible). On a personal note, with the addition of acupuncture at the Pain Clinic of Stroger Hospital, Cook County Health and Hospital System in 2011, the second largest public hospital, treating over 700,000 outpatients a year, has been evolving a model of care that moves from a vertical, silo approach housed in separate departments of specialized care, to a longitudinal model of collaboration, with dynamic interplay between caregivers sharing a common mission along a continuum of caring.

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Villarreal Santiago María is a Physiotherapist from Mexico. She worked as a Physiotherapist both in hospital and private practice settings, gaining invaluable clinical experience in managing patients with neurological and orthopaedic illnesses. In 2014, she got a Mexican government scholarship to study Master´s degree in Physiotherapy (endorsement in acupuncture) at the University of Otago, New Zealand. During her master´s dissertation, she became fascinated by acupuncture and interested to conduct research to elucidate the mechanisms behind acupuncture analgesia. She is currently working in a private clinic in Mexico City and as a Professor in Diploma of Manual Therapy, teaching all around Mexico

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Background & Aim: One of the proposed mechanisms behind acupuncture analgesia is normalising the pain-related functional connectivity (FC) of the central nervous system. Several studies have investigated the effect of acupuncture on FC changes. However, to date, there is no conclusive evidence on the ability of acupuncture intervention on pain-related FC. Therefore, the aim of the systematic review was to evaluate the evidence for the effectiveness of acupuncture on influencing the FC of the CNS in patients with musculoskeletal pain. Methods: To identify the relevant studies, a systematic literature search was conducted in the following databases: AMED, CINAHL, EMBASE, MEDLINE, PEDro, PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science using relevant MeSH. Two independent reviewers have conducted article screening process, methodological quality assessment of the included studies (Downs and Black questionnaire) and level of completeness and transparency in reporting acupuncture interventions with STRICTA. Results & Conclusion: Seven studies met the inclusion criteria, out of which, 3 were RCTs and 4 were non-RCTs. Included participants (n=191) were presented with a range of clinical conditions (osteoarthritis, chronic low back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, and fibromyalgia). Methodological quality of the studies were high in 6 studies and moderate in 1 study. Information on depth of needle insertion, needle retention time, and needle type were not reported. Due to heterogeneity in FC measures, the meta-analysis was not conducted. Positive alterations on FC of the CNS were consistently observed following long-term acupuncture intervention in patients with musculoskeletal pain. This review provides a preliminary evidence on the effectiveness of acupuncture on FC in patients with musculoskeletal pain.

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Carrie J Graves graduated from the Graduate School of Integrative Medicine in 2009. She has been incorporating Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine in her clinic in Clearwater Florida with great success. She has won Best Wellness Center and Best Acupuncture clinic in 2015. She regularly speaks in the community on topics such as nutrition, genomic medicine, hormone regulation, and alternative medicine.

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Successful alternative medical practices thrive with the integration of emerging technologies and holistic treatment methodologies. In practicing true preventative medicine, it is the practitioner’s responsibility to use all available resources to optimize the health of their patient. Personalized genomic testing is one such resource that evaluates an individual’s predisposition for nutrient absorption, metabolism, and potential toxic burden. This information facilitates custom approaches to disease prevention that can be incorporated into alternative medical fields such as traditional Chinese medicine, naturopathy, and ayurvedic practices. These holistic modalities examine constitutional patterns in diagnosing and planning patient treatment protocols. Combining genetic testing with alternative medicine can reveal valuable insights, allowing for more precise treatment regimes. This in turn provides the practitioner with additional tools to develop a more individualized disease management program, resulting in both measurable and impactful changes in their patient’s care

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Sam C Liang is currently working as an acupuncturist Golden Needle Acupuncture Inc., USA. He has published numerous research papers and articles in reputed journals and has various other achievements in the related studies. He has extended his valuable service towards the scientific community with his extensive research work.

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Herpes zoster is caused by varicella-zoster virus, the relapse of latent infection caused by the human varicella virus, and it only reoccurs when the immunity turns low. This virus is transferred from the skin through the nerve fibers to the ganglion lurking, and it relapses when immunity runs down along the nerve fibers to the skin, resulting in erythema and blisters. In most of the cases, the relapse occurs only along certain nerves, and produces zonal distribution. When herpes zoster happens, initially there will be no skin erythema or blisters, but with local nerve pain lasts about 3-5 days, after that the part with the pain will have erythema, followed by blisters. According to Chinese medicine, herpes are caused by the liver and gallbladder fire blazing up combining with the dampness accumulation in the spleen and exterior pathogen attack. In the early stage, the main symptoms are fatigue, weakness, loss of appetite, mild fever, and then soon patient will have burning sensation at the infected part. 45-years-old patient, Caucasian, initial visit on January 14th, 2014 with herpes attack, and after 2 weeks acupuncture and herbal treatments, patient claimed no more burning pain, blister totally disappeared, daily life activities and energy completely recovered.