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Friday, April 16, 1976
University Dally Kansan
Acupuncture research challenges Med Center doctors
By MARION ABARE
Although the use of acupuncture, ancient Chinese needle therapy, isn't widespread in Kansas, there has been some research of so-called "needling" at the KU Medical
Acupuncture consists of the insertion of needles into one or more of 365 spots on the human body. For centuries, it has been used to treat various diseases. China as a remedy for disease and pain.
United States-China detente opened the door for medical experts to travel to China to learn the techniques of acupuncture, and for Chinese acupuncture specialists to come to the United States to give demonstrations and training sessions.
Since then, acupuncture treatments have been used by many physicians in the United States. And, although not widely used in Kansas, there was even legislation presented that would legislate that guidelines for regulating the use of acupuncture in Kansas.
JAMES E. HILL, a physician from Arkansas City and secretary of the State Board of Healing Arts (SBHA), said that he was very impressed with the acupuncture in Kansas. In the past, he said, acupuncture courses in Kansas were conducted by Chinese.
But, limited research in acupuncture has gone on at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Asumi Arakawa, associate professor and vice chairman of the department of anesthesiology, said he had been doing human experimentation in the needle treatment for chronic pain since January, 1974.
A MED CENTER staff member since 1983. Awakened he studied arthropuncture in Tampa.
He said that before he would accept a patient, the patient must have undergone a thorough examination by his own physician, who must write a letter of recommendation and give a summary of all previous treatment for the chronic pain.
"My objective is to apply acupuncture to pain, mainly of unknown cause, after a vigorous physical and chemical examination by the candidate's physician. When a patient comes here, everything else he brings. He comes here as a last resort," Akrawa said.
He stressed that he wouldn't treat anyone who had a malignancy, where a patient's condition might worsen if left untreated, despite the pain which have been alleviated.
FOR EXAMPLE, he said, a person may feel he has tennis elbow, but actually have
bone cancer causing the pain. An acupuncture treatment might ease the pain, but the cancer could become worse and possibly be fatal.
Arakawa said that some people thought hypnotic suggestion was involved and the use of an exotic instrument alone could be suggestive to relieve pain.
"My question was, 'Is the hypnotizable patient showing better results than one who is awake?'"
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"My question was, 'Is the hypnotizable patient showing better results than one who is awake?'"
ARAKAWA* patients ranged in age from 22 to 74. Their ailments included arthritis of the knee and back pain, causalgia (painful spasms of vessels), headache and shoulder pain, midback pain, multiple sclerosis, elbow and neuropathy (of the face).
BEFORE TREATMENT, he gave each person a hypnotizability test, which scales from zero—not hypnotizable to four—very hypnotizable.
Five to seven acupuncture treatments one week apart were given each patient, he said. Inquiry was made about two months after the last treatment.
He found no significant correlation between a person's hypnofontality and pain.
"A patient of high hypnotizability is not
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He noted that 44.5 per cent of those treated has been positive, while 45.5 per cent responded poorly.
"As a by-product what I found out was the great individual differences. One patient would respond very well and another would respond poorly in sort of indicated a behavior attitudinal."
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HE SAID the Chinese have "selected" patients for acupuncture and doctors were striving to find out how to choose people for whom acupuncture will work well.
"Everybody is curious why acupuncture works for pain. Scientists are arguing." Arakawa said. "One says acupuncture certainly has the mechanics to decrease pain, but scientists have ability to decrease pain, but their attitude makes the patient feel less pain."
ONE OF THE patients who responded
He said this behavior attitude could begin in infancy. His son broke a bone when he was a baby, he said, and today he doesn't like to go to the barber shop because he associates the white coat of the barber with the white coated doctors.
well after five or six acuturetreatments is still without pair, two years later, according to a note on *Christmas card received by Akawaka*. The patient was the same as the girl he said she had been previously treated surgically.
In his office in the anesthesiology department of the Med Center, Arakawa has an assortment of various needles mounted for display under glass. The needles range from about $ \frac{1}{4} $ inch to three inches in length. He said the needles, after insertion, could be twirled manually or electronically.
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