drcarolynee - finding the answers to health and happiness
Thirteen years ago I had a panic attack after finishing my last shift as a hospital doctor. I was hyperventilating and shaking. For a few minutes I wondered how I was going to survive without that familiar yet suffocating yoke around my neck that I …
) In 2012 I was nominated as an “Early Career Researcher” speaker at a colloquium to celebrate 150 years of women in medicine at the University of Melbourne. While I was incredibly honoured to be nominated, I was somewhat in a panic when my nomination …
I get asked this question a lot by curious friends and nervous patients. Does acupuncture hurt? Whenever people think of needles, they think of pain. Most people are surprised, and relieved, to learn that acupuncture doesn’t hurt. Most of the time, patients don’t even feel …
I had an enquiry from a new patient who was referred me for acupuncture because her baby was in breech position (bottom/legs first). I haven’t done any acupuncture to attempt to “turn” babies in the third trimester, and I thought I would look into it …
There’s been a bit of a flurry of activity recently in my research world, with our fabulous media rep scoring a news item on Channel Ten News, which aired on 9 April 2012. The news team were wonderful, and I was relieved that the whole …
A Cochrane review confirms that acupuncture increases the live birth rate after In-Vitro Fertilisation. Read more from my article on Natural Therapy Pages.
Get migraines? Acupuncture can help – without the side effects. Have a look at my article
Lately I’ve turned my hand to writing articles for online sources. I approached Natural Therapy Pages, arguably the largest Natural therapies directory in Australia, about linking to the Acupause study from their article on acupuncture for hot flushes. In return I offered to write several …
This is hot off the press. A very recent review on menopause and hot flushes, written by a collaboration of menopause experts including Professor Martha Hickey from our very own University of Melbourne and Royal Women’s Hospital, commented that “Acupuncture may ameliorate climacteric symptoms but …
That is what I am presumably spending the next six years finding out, though I don’t think I can really claim to answer the question after doing a mere PhD on the topic – but I will hopefully be adding to the “body of evidence”. …
