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- Acupuncture Therapy; Chronic Disease; Musculoskeletal Pain -- therapy; Comparative Study (1)
- Atherosclerosis -- drug therapy; Complementary Therapies; Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors -- therapeutic use; Hyperlipidemias -- drug therapy; Treatment Adherence and Compliance; Comparative Study (1)
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Acupuncture: A Comparison Study Of Sham Acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Acupuncture And Current Practice Guidelines For The Treatment Of Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain In Adults, Kayla Olson
Physician Assistant Scholarly Project Posters
• Chronic pain is one of the most difficult conditions to treat.
---Close monitoring of controlled medications
---Unnecessary, expensive surgeries
• Alternatives to medication is increasingly necessary.
• Integrative medicine incorporates traditional western medicine with unconventional therapies, such as acupuncture.
---Evaluate the treatments’ efficacy for chronic neck and back pain by evaluating meta-analysis studies and randomized controlled trials.
• Physiology is a large component of understanding how and if the acupuncture works.
---Non-invasive functional magnetic resonance imaging
---Neurotransmitters and their response to acupuncture
• Acupuncture therapy for improvement of chronic musculoskeletal pain
Alternative Treatment With Red Yeast Rice To Reduce Hyperlipidemia, Lisa Froemke
Alternative Treatment With Red Yeast Rice To Reduce Hyperlipidemia, Lisa Froemke
Physician Assistant Scholarly Project Posters
• First line treatment of cardiovascular disease is lifestyle modification followed by the pharmacologic intervention of HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors or statins
• Statins are commonly associated with intolerable side effects such as myalgia leading to medication non-compliance
• RYR preparations claim to inhibit cholesterol synthesis without causing myalgia
• RYR preparations have naturally occurring monacolins such as monacolin K which is chemically identical to lovastatin
• RYR is not regulated by the FDA leading to questionable manufacturing practices producing varying ingredient composition
• The purpose of this study is to investigate the role RYR in hyperlipidemia treatment compared to statins …