Scientific Proof to How your Body react to Acupuncture - Rheumatoid Arthritis
Regular sessions of Acupuncture can help in the treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis.
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common inflammatory arthritis and has been known as a chronic and autoimmune disease involving inflammatory condition characterized with symmetrical and persistent joint synovial inflammations and destructive polyarthritis. RA is also associated with morbidity, chronic disability, and poor quality of life.
The mainstream of the management regarding RA is the use of nonsteroid anti-inflammatory drugs, disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs, analgesics, and biological agents. But the concerns may arise when taking accompanying side effects and toxicity into consideration.
Acupuncture has been used for thousands of years to treat various clinical disorders including that of RA like conditions based on TCM theory.
Among all the proposed mechanisms of how Acupuncture help with RA, anti-inflammatory effect has been the most often mentioned which was supposed to provide nonanalgesic effects via suppression of inflammatory response, improvement of blood flow, or relaxation of muscle tone.
Below are some of the many scientific papers that supports Acupuncture in the treatment of RA.
Conclusion: Acupuncture elicits a range of effects which contribute to improvements in RA patients' quality of life. The effects include the relief of rheumatic pain and improvements in mobility, alleviation of a number of consequential secondary symptoms of RA, such as fatigue, depression and sleeplessness. These effects allowed patients to feel normal again and regain their lives, and resulted in improvements in patients' lifestyle, emotional well-being and self-image.
Conclusion: Acupuncture alone or combined with other treatment modalities is beneficial to the clinical conditions of RA without adverse effects reported and can improve function and quality of life.
Conclusion: Manual acupuncture (MA) could alleviate the inflammation and pain of infected joints. Moreover, MA could effectively stimulate the innate immune cytokines (IL-1αα, IL-1ββ, IL-6, IL-7, IL-18, TNF-αα) and adaptive immunity cytokines (IL-2, IL-12, IFN-γγ, IL-4, IL-5, IL-10, IL-13, IL-17) as the main part of the immune response and repaired damage of Rheumatoid Arthritis.
