| Management of Chronic pain:Sign136:Scotland | Chronic neck and low back pain; Knee osteoarthritis. Healthcare improvement Scotland |
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| NICE guidelineCG150 | Prophylactic Tension Type Headache. CG150.UK |
| oncoline; nausea and vomiting | Nausea and vomiting. Oncoline. Palliatieve zorg. The Netherlands.( In Dutch) |
| Guideline facial pain(dutch) | Temporomandibular dysfunctional pain (TMD). Recommendation Acupuncture Dutch Guideline Facial Pain.(In Dutch) |
| Clinical guidelines annals.org | Chronic and subacute low back pain. American Pain Society. 2007 |
| Dak.de | Low back pain and knee arthrosis |
| american academy of otolaryngalogy | Allergic Rhinitis. indicated as option |
| Tuscany Italy guideline Acupuncture | Overall recommendations for several conditions specified at page 100 |
| Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Guideline Acupuncture | Migraine, Tension type headache and Low back pain |
| Royal collega of Obstetricians and gyanecologists | Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy |
| Agency for effective Health Care US | Acute and chronic low back pain |
| American college of physicians | Acute, subacute and chronic low back pain. |
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Recommendations according the Cochrane database| Recommended for | Date of publication |
|---|---|
| Alzheimer (published on Pubmed) review | Jun, 2015 |
| Endometriosis | Sept, 2011 |
| Fibromyalgia | May,2013 |
| Low back pain | Febr,2011 |
| Menopausal hot flushes | July 2013 |
| Migraine | June, 2016 |
| Osteoarthritis | Jan,2010 |
| Pelvic pain | August 2013 |
| Short term effects smoking cessation | January, 2014 |
| Shoulder pain | Okt, 2008 |
| Tennis elbow | Febr,2013 |
| Tension type headache | April, 2016 |
| Postoperative nausea and vomiting | Nov, 2015 |
| Further research necessary | Date of publication |
|---|---|
| Functional dyspepsia | Okt,2014 |
| Schizophrenia | Okt, 2014 |
| Mumps in children | Jan, 2014 |
| Stress urinary incontinence | July, 2013 |
| Cancer-related pain | June,2012 |
| Insomnia | Sept, 2012 |
| Dysmenorhea | Febr, 2012 |
| Uterine Fibroids | Jan, 2012 |
| Irritable bowel syndrome | May, 2012 |
| Pain releive during labour | Aug, 2011 |
| Polycystic ovarian syndrome | Aug, 2011 |
| Bell´s palsy | Aug, 2010 |
| ADHD | April, 2011 |
| Depression | Jan, 2010 |
| Chronic asthma | July, 2009 |
| Recommendations on base of WHO report 2002 | |
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| 1. Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which acupuncture has been proved—through controlled trials—to be an effective treatment: | Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever) Biliary colic Depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke) Dysentery, acute bacillary Dysmenorrhoea, primary Epigastralgia, acute (in peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis, and gastrospasm) Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders) Headache Hypertension, essential Hypotension, primary Induction of labour Knee pain Leukopenia Low back pain Malposition of fetus, correction of Morning sickness Nausea and vomiting Neck pain Pain in dentistry (including dental pain and temporomandibular dysfunction) Periarthritis of shoulder Postoperative pain Renal colic Rheumatoid arthritis Sciatica Sprain Stroke Tennis elbow |
| 2. Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which the therapeutic effect of acupuncture has been shown but for which further proof is needed: | Abdominal pain (in acute gastroenteritis or due to gastrointestinal spasm) Acne vulgaris Alcohol dependence and detoxification Bell’s palsy Bronchial asthma Cancer pain Cardiac neurosis Cholecystitis, chronic, with acute exacerbation Cholelithiasis Competition stress syndrome Craniocerebral injury, closed Diabetes mellitus, non-insulin-dependent Earache Epidemic haemorrhagic fever Epistaxis, simple (without generalized or local disease) Eye pain due to subconjunctival injection Female infertility Facial spasm Female urethral syndrome Fibromyalgia and fasciitis Gastrokinetic disturbance Gouty arthritis Hepatitis B virus carrier status Herpes zoster (human (alpha) herpesvirus 3) Hyperlipaemia Hypo-ovarianism Insomnia Labour pain Lactation, deficiency Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic Ménière disease Neuralgia, post-herpetic Neurodermatitis Obesity Opium, cocaine and heroin dependence Osteoarthritis Pain due to endoscopic examination Pain in thromboangiitis obliterans Polycystic ovary syndrome (Stein–Leventhal syndrome) Postextubation in children Postoperative convalescence Premenstrual syndrome Prostatitis, chronic Pruritus Radicular and pseudoradicular pain syndrome Raynaud syndrome, primary Recurrent lower urinary-tract infection Reflex sympathetic dystrophy Retention of urine, traumatic Schizophrenia Sialism, drug-induced Sjögren syndrome Sore throat (including tonsillitis) Spine pain,acute Stiff neck Temporomandibular joint dysfunction Tietze syndrome Tobacco dependence Tourette syndrome Ulcerative colitis, chronic Urolithiasis Vascular dementia Whooping cough (pertussis) |
| 3. Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which there are only individual controlled trials reporting some therapeutic effects, but for which acupuncture is worth trying because treatment by conventional and other therapies is difficult: | Chloasma Choroidopathy, central serous Colour blindness Deafness Hypophrenia Irritable colon syndrome Neuropathic bladder in spinal cord injury Pulmonary heart disease, chronic Small airway obstruction |
| 4. Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which acupuncture may be tried provided the practitioner has special modern medical knowledge and adequate monitoring equipment: | Breathlessness in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Coma Convulsions in infants Coronary heart disease (angina pectoris) Diarrhoea in infants and young children Encephalitis, viral, in children, late stage Paralysis, progressive bulbar and pseudobulbar |