Acupuncture treatment of a male patient suffering from long-term schizophrenia and sleep disorders

Acupuncture as Add-On Treatment of the Positive, Negative, and Cognitive Symptoms of Patients with Schizophrenia: A Systematic Review

“…As can be seen in Figure 1, our search resulted in 97 articles, of which 38 articles were relevant, but only 26 of those 38 satisfied the inclusion criteria and were, thus, eligible for inclusion in this review. Of the 26, 7 were randomized controlled trials [32][33][34][35][36][37][38], 12 were case studies [39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50], and 7…”

“…Reshef and colleagues [61] reported better acupuncture effects on the objective sleep measurements than on the subjective sleep measurements, Bosch and colleagues, on the contrary, reported better results on the subjective sleep measurements than on the objective sleep measurements [45].…”

“…Positive results have been reported for the treatment of co-morbid sleep disorders [35,50]. schizophrenia and co-morbid sleep disorders [43][44][45]. However, those positive effects of acupuncture in the treatment of the co-morbid sleep disorders could not be replicated in a randomized, controlled trial on 40 outpatients with schizophrenia [38].…”

“…In acupuncture research on patients with schizophrenia and co-morbid sleep disorders, both objective and subjective sleep measurements are being used with mixed results [45,61]. Whereas…”

Geschlechtsunterschiede bei der Akupunkturbehandlung von Patienten mit Depressionen

“…Die individuelle Akupunktur wurde nach individueller TCM-(Traditionelle-Chinesische-Medizin-)Diagnose, inklusive Puls-und Zungendiagnostik [9], durch zwei lizenzierte TCM-Therapeutinnen mit mehr als 5 Jahren klinischer Erfahrung angewendet und die STRICTA-Kriterien wurden angestrebt [10]. Welche Akupunkturpunkte bei welchen Mustern zur Anwendung kamen, wurde seitens der Akupunkteurinnen jeweils pro Behandlung festgelegt, es gab kein vorab feststehendes (semi)standardisiertes Protokoll.…”