Acupuncture improves sleep apnoea

Brazilian researchers have shown in a pilot study that acupuncture can improve the sleep pattern of patients with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA). Forty patients were randomly allocated to manual acupuncture (MA) treatment, 10 Hz electroacupuncture (EA) treatment, 2 Hz EA treatment, or a no-treatment control group. Apnoea scores and number of nocturnal respiratory events decreased significantly in ...

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