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| Title |
Is acupuncture “stimulation” a misnomer? A case for using the term “blockade”
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, March 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6882-13-68 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Morry Silberstein |
| Abstract |
The term used most frequently in the literature to describe acupuncture's effects is "stimulation" which may be used to describe either (or both) the direct stimulus applied to a needle as well as putative stimulation of the nervous system, despite little published evidence describing what is actually being stimulated. In contrast, recent published work has suggested that acupuncture may, in fact be inhibitory at a peripheral level, acting by blocking neural transmission. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 4 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 50% |
| United States | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 1 | 25% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 75% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 25% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 27 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 1 | 4% |
| Germany | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 25 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 4 | 15% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 3 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 3 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 2 | 7% |
| Researcher | 2 | 7% |
| Other | 6 | 22% |
| Unknown | 7 | 26% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 18 | 67% |
| Psychology | 1 | 4% |
| Neuroscience | 1 | 4% |
| Engineering | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 6 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 March 2013.
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#7,425,448
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Outputs from BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
#1,230
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#65,487
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
#23
of 59 outputs
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