Edzard Ernst MD, PhD, MAE, FMedSci, FRSB, FRCP, FRCPEd.
Dry needling (DN) is a treatment used by various healthcare practitioners, including physical therapists, physicians, and chiropractors. It involves the use of either solid filiform needles or hollow-core hypodermic needles for therapy of muscle pain, including pain related to myofascial pain syndrome. DN is mainly used to treat myofascial trigger points, but it is also used to target ...
Spinal manipulations for migraine: a systematic review
2 天之前 · This update of a systematic review evaluated the effectiveness of spinal manipulations as a treatment for migraine headaches. Amed, Embase, MEDLINE, CINAHL, Mantis, Index to Chiropractic Literature, and Cochrane Central were searched from inception to September 2023. Randomized clinical trials (RCTs) investigating spinal manipulations (performed by various healthcare professionals including ...
About - Edzard Ernst
Edzard Ernst was born in 1948. He went to school in Germany and the US and studied psychology and medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. In 1977, he qualified as a physician in Munich where he also completed his MD and PhD theses. He was Professor in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PMR) at
A look at my own publications - Edzard Ernst
2021年5月27日 · What my analysis of these data suggests is the following: Only relatively few articles (n=8) are in the ‘top 100’ that I published before I took up the Exeter post starting full-time research into so-called alternative medicine ().Despite the fact that in any such analysis older papers are at a significant advantage over newer articles, …
The UK ‘Assisted Dying Bill’: reasons for concern?
4 天之前 · If you live in the UK, you could not possibly escape the discussion about the 'Assisted Dying Bill' which passed yesterday's vote in the House of Commons (MPs have voted by 330 to 275 in favour of legalising voluntary assisted suicide). Once the bill passed all the further parliamentary hurdles - which might take several
Lectures & Talks - Edzard Ernst
Details of the lectures that I plan to give in the near future 31 October 2024, University of Vienna. Title: ALTERNATIVMEDIZIN: EMINENZ CONTRA EVIDENZ 12 December 2024, University of Vienna. Public Discussion about Alternative Medicine If you require details (or hope to invite me for a talk), please contact me. I will carefully
An evidence-based assessment of 202 alternative treatments and ...
2022年12月7日 · Yesterday, the post brought me a nice Christmas present. For many months, I had been working on updating and extending a book of mine. Then there were some delays at the publisher, but now it is out - what a delight! The previous edition contained my evidence-based assessments of 150 alternative modalities (therapies and diagnostic
CAM-CANCER: a most valuable source of information
2019年2月4日 · Today is WORLD CANCER DAY.A good reason, I feel, to remind everyone of the existence of CAM-CANCER, an initiative that I have been involved with from its start (in fact, I was one of its initiators).Essentially, we – that is an international team of CAM-experts – conduct systematic reviews of CAMs often advertised for cancer.
Meditation for the primary and secondary prevention of …
2024年2月20日 · These days - 11 years after the closure of my department at Exeter - it is not often that I co-author a peer-reviewed paper. All the more reason, I think, to celebrate when it does happen: Our review was aimed at determining the effectiveness of meditation, primarily mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) and transcendental meditation (TM), for
Acupuncture: an update of the most reliable evidence – PART 1
2020年6月3日 · Someone alerted me to a short article (2008) of mine that I had forgotten about. In it, I mention the 32 Cochrane reviews of acupuncture available at the time and the fact that they showed very little in favour of acupuncture. This made me wonder to what extent the situation might have changed in the