Papers by Gianluca Bianco
European Journal of Translational Myology
According to Traditional Chinese Medicine “acupuncture is believed to restore the balance between... more According to Traditional Chinese Medicine “acupuncture is believed to restore the balance between Yin and Yang” and this can be understood in the Western medicine terminology as a “modulation of the equilibrium between parasympathetic and sympathetic activity”. The vast majority of studies concerning the mechanisms of action of acupuncture have been conduct-ed on its influence on pain, and it has been proposed that acupuncture may indirectly relieve chronic pain by its effects on autonomic nervous system function. Several studies have shown that acupunc-ture recruits brain networks involved in the integration of multiple other brain functions: for example, the limbic-paralimbic-neocortical network, which plays a major role in modulating the affective di-mensions of pain processing and the integration of emotional, sensorimotor, autonomic and immuno-logical functions. It has been recently proposed that mechanical signaling through the connective tissue, along with transmission of the...
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Papers by Gianluca Bianco