| Title: | Effect of Acupuncture Needle Manipulation on Connective Tissue |
| Date: |
December 5, 2006 (Tuesday)
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| Time: |
2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
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| Venue: |
Room 121, 1/F, Ho Sin-hang Engineering Building,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T. |
| Speaker: |
Prof. Helene M. Langevin
Departments of Neurology, Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation University of Vermont USA |
A substantial body of work has established that stimulation of acupuncture needles can have widespread effects on the nervous system including sensory afferent nerves, brainstem, limbic and autonomic systems. However, these effects have not explained how fundamental acupuncture concepts such as acupuncture points, meridians and qi could fit with existing physiological data. The effect of acupuncture needle manipulation on connective tissue may help answer this question. We have recently shown that brief acupuncture needle manipulation causes measurable effects in connective tissue matrix and cells, and that connective tissue and acupuncture meridian networks may be related. In this presentation, I will summarize work performed over the past ten years at the University of Vermont investigating the effects of acupuncture on connective tissue in humans and animal models.
BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Helene M. Langevin received an MD degree from McGill University, followed by a post doctoral research fellowship in Neurochemistry at the MRC Neurochemical Pharmacology Unit in Cambridge, England, residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Endocrinology and Metabolism at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD. She studied acupuncture at the Tristate Institute of Acupuncture, Stamford CT and at the Worsley College of Classical Chinese Acupuncture in Leamington Spa, England and Miami FL. She currently is a Research Associate Professor in the Departments of Neurology, Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation at the University of Vermont and is the Principal Investigator of two NIH-funded studies investigating the mechanism of action of acupuncture and the effect of acupuncture on connective tissue in low back pain. She is the past Co-President of the Society of Acupuncture Research.
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