{"id":803,"date":"2018-08-08T01:56:33","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T01:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=803"},"modified":"2018-08-16T02:00:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T02:00:38","slug":"acupuncture-does-it-belong-in-animal-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=803","title":{"rendered":"Acupuncture: Does it Belong in Animal Research?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Acupuncture is commonly used to relieve pain in both people and pets. Can it also be used alongside traditional medicine to manage pain in laboratory animals?<\/p>\n<p>The ancient Chinese therapy is slowly being incorporated into research settings, in an effort to improve clinical conditions and quality of life. A 2015 study in Endocrinology revealed that acupuncture impacts biological pathways ramped up by pain and stress in laboratory rats.<\/p>\n<p>The use of acupuncture in companion animals has increased drastically in the last decade and is primarily used to treat neurological and orthopedic conditions.<\/p>\n<p>More slowly, acupuncture has started to become used in laboratory animal and research settings.<\/p>\n<p>This delay can be attributed to: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The small size of the rodents commonly used in animal research, which can make proper acupuncture technique difficult.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0A lack of training into its technique by laboratory animal veterinarians.<\/li>\n<li>&nbsp;\n<p><span>A concern that acupuncture introduces an unknown variable into research studies.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More of this news at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laboratoryequipment.com\/news\/2018\/08\/acupuncture-does-it-belong-animal-research\">Laboratory Equipment<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acupuncture is commonly used to relieve pain in both people and pets. Can it also be used alongside traditional medicine&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[12,13],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acupuncture","category-articles","tag-acupuncture","tag-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}