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JOEL DUNNING – Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon
In this video, Mr Joel Dunning, Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, explains Robin’s role and how the acupuncture service for the thoracic surgery department at James Cook University Hospital helps patients and staff!
Log in to the EBA Forum and watch “Acupuncture and Complementary Therapy in Thoracic Surgery”, a 12min video interview with Robin Sunley and Joel Dunning.
LATEST POST ON THE EBA FORUM

Acupuncture for sleep disturbance in cancer
Among cancer survivors with comorbid sleep disturbance and chronic pain, electroacupuncture and auricular acupuncture produced a clinically relevant and persistent improvement in sleep quality.
These findings suggest that acupuncture may be an evidence‐based nonpharmacologic intervention to improve sleep health for cancer survivors with pain.
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EBA Chats …with Ed Neal
On the first episode of EBA Chats 🎙️ Mel Hopper Koppelman chats with Ed Neal.
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Effects of Electroacupuncture for Opioid-Induced Constipation in Patients With Cancer
Electro-acupuncture treatment could increase weekly spontaneous bowel movements with a good safety profile.
This randomized clinical trial that included 100 patients with cancer and opioid-induced constipation found that the proportion of overall responders was greater with electroacupuncture (40.1%) than with sham electroacupuncture (9.0%) at week 8, a significant difference.


Mechanistic basis for the effects of electroacupuncture on neuropathic pain within the central nervous system
Electroacupuncture induced signals are transmitted to the spinal cord and related areas of the brain where they can regulate neurotransmitters and cytokines, inhibit glial cell activation, regulated cellular signal pathways, and modulate nociceptors to alleviate pain.