Elbow, Wrist & Hand Pain Acupuncture Articles & Abstracts

We hope you find these elbow, wrist and hand pain acupuncture articles and abstracts helpful in your sports medicine acupuncture practice:

  1. Trinh, K. V., Phillips, S. D., Ho, E., & Damsma, K. (2004). Acupuncture for the alleviation of lateral epicondyle pain: a systematic review. Rheumatology, 43(9), 1085-1090.

  2. Fink, M., Wolkenstein, E., Karst, M., & Gehrke, A. (2002). Acupuncture in chronic epicondylitis: a randomized controlled trial. Rheumatology, 41(2), 205-209.

  3. Green, S., Buchbinder, R., Barnsley, L., Hall, S., White, M., Smidt, N., & Assendelft, W. J. (2002). Acupuncture for lateral elbow pain. The Cochrane Library.

  4. Molsberger, A., & Hille, E. (1994). The analgesic effect of acupuncture in chronic tennis elbow pain. Rheumatology, 33(12), 1162-1165.

  5. Gu, J. Q., & Shan, Y. H. (2007). Therapeutic effect of triple puncture at Tianzong (SI 11) as main method on obstinate tennis elbow. Zhongguo zhen jiu= Chinese acupuncture & moxibustion, 27(2), 109-111.

  6. Gadau, M., Yeung, W. F., Liu, H., Zaslawski, C., Tan, Y. S., Wang, F. C., … & Zhang, S. P. (2014). Acupuncture and moxibustion for lateral elbow pain: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials. BMC complementary and alternative medicine, 14(1), 136.

  7. Haker, E., & Lundeberg, T. (1990). Acupuncture treatment in epicondylalgia: a comparative study of two acupuncture techniques. The Clinical journal of pain, 6(3), 221-226.

  8. Tsui, P., & Leung, M. C. (2002). Comparison of the effectiveness between manual acupuncture and electro-acupuncture on patients with tennis elbow. Acupuncture & electro-therapeutics research, 27(2), 107-117.

  9. Napadow, V., Kettner, N., Liu, J., Li, M., Kwong, K. K., Vangel, M., … & Hui, K. K. S. (2007). Hypothalamus and amygdala response to acupuncture stimuli in carpal tunnel syndrome. Pain, 130(3), 254-266.

  1. Kumnerddee, W., & Kaewtong, A. (2010). Efficacy of acupuncture versus night splinting for carpal tunnel syndrome: a randomized clinical trial. Medical journal of the Medical Association of Thailand, 93(12), 1463.

  2. da Silva, J. B. G., & Batigália, F. (2013). Acupuncture in De Quervain’s disease: a treatment proposal. Acupuncture in Medicine, acupmed-2013.

  3. Hadianfard, M., Ashraf, A., Fakheri, M., & Nasiri, A. (2014). Efficacy of acupuncture versus local methylprednisolone acetate injection in De Quervain’s tenosynovitis: a randomized controlled trial. Journal of acupuncture and meridian studies, 7(3), 115-121.

  4. Napadow, V., Liu, J., Li, M., Kettner, N., Ryan, A., Kwong, K. K., … & Audette, J. F. (2007). Somatosensory cortical plasticity in carpal tunnel syndrome treated by acupuncture. Human brain mapping, 28(3), 159-171.

  5. Sim, H., Shin, B. C., Lee, M. S., Jung, A., Lee, H., & Ernst, E. (2011). Acupuncture for carpal tunnel syndrome: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials. The Journal of Pain, 12(3), 307-314.

  6. Naeser, M. A. (1997). Neurological rehabilitation: acupuncture and laser acupuncture to treat paralysis in stroke, other paralytic conditions, and pain in carpal tunnel syndrome. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 3(4), 425-428.

  7. Yang, C. P., Hsieh, C. L., Wang, N. H., Li, T. C., Hwang, K. L., Yu, S. C., & Chang, M. H. (2009). Acupuncture in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome: A randomized controlled trial. The Clinical journal of pain, 25(4), 327-333.

  8. Yang, C. P., Wang, N. H., Li, T. C., Hsieh, C. L., Chang, H. H., Hwang, K. L., … & Chang, M. H. (2011). A randomized clinical trial of acupuncture versus oral steroids for carpal tunnel syndrome: a long-term follow-up. The Journal of Pain, 12(2), 272-279.

  9. Napadow, V., Kettner, N., Liu, J., Li, M., Kwong, K. K., Vangel, M., … & Hui, K. K. S. (2007). Hypothalamus and amygdala response to acupuncture stimuli in carpal tunnel syndrome. Pain, 130(3), 254-266.

  10. Naeser, M. A., Hahn, K. A. K., Lieberman, B. E., & Branco, K. F. (2002). Carpal tunnel syndrome pain treated with low-level laser and microamperes transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation: a controlled study. Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation, 83(7), 978-988.

  11. Chung, V. C., Ho, R. S., Liu, S., Chong, M. K., Leung, A. W., Yip, B. H., … & Lau, A. Y. (2016). Electroacupuncture and splinting versus splinting alone to treat carpal tunnel syndrome: a randomized controlled trial. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 188(12), 867-875.

  12. Mukherjee, M., McPeak, L. K., Redford, J. B., Sun, C., & Liu, W. (2007). The effect of electro-acupuncture on spasticity of the wrist joint in chronic stroke survivors. Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation, 88(2), 159-166.

  13. Pain, 130(3):254-266. Napadow, V., Kettner, N., Liu, J., Li, M., Kwong, K. K., Vangel, M., Makris, N., Audette, J., and Hui, K. K. (2007), Hypothalamus and amygdala response to acupuncture stimuli in carpal tunnel syndrome.