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. 2013:2013:984763.
doi: 10.1155/2013/984763. Epub 2013 Jun 26.

Auricular acupuncture with laser

Regina Round  1 , Gerhard Litscher, Frank Bahr
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Auricular acupuncture with laser

Regina Round et al. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2013.

Abstract

Auricular acupuncture is a method which has been successfully used in various fields of medicine especially in the treatment of pain relief. The introduction of lasers especially low-level lasers into medicine brought besides the already existing stimulation with needles and electricity an additional technique to auricular acupuncture. This literature research looks at the historical background, the development and the anatomical and neurological aspects of auricular acupuncture in general and auricular laser acupuncture in detail. Preliminary scientific findings on auricular acupuncture with laser have been described in detail and discussed critically in this review article. The results of the studies have shown evidence of the effect of auricular laser acupuncture. However, a comparison of these studies was impossible due to their different study designs. The most important technical as well as study parameters were described in detail in order to give more sufficient evidence and to improve the quality of future studies.

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Figures

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Figure 1
Inverted fetus. Modified from [10].
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Figure 2
Anatomy of the auricle.
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Figure 3
Green marks the branch of the vagus nerve, red marks the auriculotemporal nerve, blue marks the lesser occipital nerve, and yellow marks the greater auricular nerve. Modified from [20, 21].
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Figure 4
Somatotopy. Modified from [10].
Figure 5
Figure 5
Auricular embryology.
Figure 6
Figure 6
Point finder [10].
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Figure 7
Detection of VAS. Modified from [10].
Figure 8
Figure 8
Shenmen [7, 63].
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Figure 9
Heart point of the Western system (red), Heart point of the Chinese system (green) [7, 63].
Figure 10
Figure 10
Thalamus point [7, 63].
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Figure 11
Point Zero [7, 63].
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Figure 12
Lung points [7, 63].
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Figure 13
Laser needle for acupuncture.
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Figure 14
Laser needles. Modified from [97].
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Figure 15
“Windows of the brain”: transorbital ((a), (c)), transnuchal ((b) right), transtemporal ((b) left, (c) right). Modified from [104].
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