Guidance for acupuncture robot with potentially utilizing medical robotic technologies

T Xu, Y Xia - Evidence‐Based Complementary and Alternative …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Acupuncture is gaining increasing attention and recognition all over the world. However, a
lot of physical labor is paid by acupuncturists. It is natural to resort to a robot which can …

Integrative Laser Medicine and High‐Tech Acupuncture at the Medical University of Graz, Austria, Europe

G Litscher - Evidence‐Based Complementary and Alternative …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
At the moment, modernization of acupuncture has a high priority. On the traditional side,
acupuncture has only recently been awarded the status of Intangible Cultural Heritage by …

Acupuncture using laser needles modulates brain function: first evidence from functional transcranial Doppler sonography and functional magnetic resonance imaging

G Litscher, D Rachbauer, S Ropele, L Wang… - Lasers in Medical …, 2004 - Springer
Acupuncture using laser needles is a new totally painless stimulation method which has
been described for the first time. This paper presents an experimental double-blind study in …

Effects of QiGong on brain function

G Litscher, G Wenzel, G Niederwieser… - Neurological …, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
QiGong is an ancient and widely practiced Chinese meditation exercise. We studied the
effects of QiGong on brain function with modern neuromonitoring tools in two subjects. In a …

Changed skin blood perfusion in the fingertip following acupuncture needle introduction as evaluated by laser Doppler perfusion imaging

G Litscher, L Wang, E Huber, G Nilsson - Lasers in medical science, 2002 - Springer
Rapidly repeated imaging of the left middle fingertip skin blood perfusion was performed in
51 healthy volunteers (mean age±SD: 25.3±7.6 years) prior to, immediately after and in the …

Robot-controlled acupuncture—an innovative step towards modernization of the ancient traditional medical treatment method

KC Lan, G Litscher - Medicines, 2019 - mdpi.com
Background: For several years now, research teams worldwide have been conducting high-
tech research on the development of acupuncture robots. In this article, the design of such …

Effects of acupressure, manual acupuncture and Laserneedle® acupuncture on EEG bispectral index and spectral edge frequency in healthy volunteers

G Litscher - European Journal of Anaesthesiology, 2004 - cambridge.org
SummaryBackground and objective: The main purpose of this study was to investigate the
effects of sensory (acupressure and acupuncture) and optical stimulation (Laserneedle® …

Cerebral vascular effects of non-invasive laserneedles measured by transorbital and transtemporal Doppler sonography

G Litscher, D Schikora - Lasers in Medical Science, 2002 - Springer
Laserneedles represent a new non-invasive optical stimulation method which is described
for the first time in this paper. We investigated 27 healthy volunteers (mean age±SD …

The Future of Laser Acupuncture—Robot-Assisted Laser Stimulation and Evaluation

G Litscher - Life, 2022 - mdpi.com
This brief contribution is part of a Special Issue entitled 'Laser Acupuncture: Past, Present
and Future'and primarily deals with the future of laser acupuncture from the author's …

Computer-based quantification of traditional Chinese-, ear-and Korean hand acupuncture: needle-induced changes of regional cerebral blood flow velocity

G Litscher - Neurological Research, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
The purpose of this randomized, placebo-controlled, cross-over study was to investigate
mean blood flow velocity (vm) of the ophthalmic (OA) and the middle cerebral (MCA) artery …