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| Irene LundSummaryAffiliation: Karolinska Institutet Country: Sweden Publications
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Is there a role for acupuncture in endometriosis pain, or 'endometrialgia'?Thomas Lundeberg
Foundation for Acupuncture and Alternative Biological Treatment Methods, Sabbatsbergs Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Acupunct Med 26:94-110. 2008..However, management of pain in women with endometriosis is currently inadequate for many. Possibly acupuncture and cognitive therapy may be used as an adjunct...- Repeated massage-like stimulation induces long-term effects on nociception: contribution of oxytocinergic mechanismsIrene Lund
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, SE 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
Eur J Neurosci 16:330-8. 2002..The long-term antinociceptive effects of massage-like stroking may be attributed, at least partly, to the oxytocinergic system and its interaction with the opioid system, especially the mu- and the kappa-receptors in the PAG... - Decrease of pregnant women's pelvic pain after acupuncture: a randomized controlled single-blind studyIrene Lund
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, SE 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand 85:12-9. 2006..Our aim was to evaluate the effects of two different acupuncture stimulation modes on pelvic pain intensity and some emotional symptoms due to the pain condition... - Evaluation of variations in sensory and pain threshold assessments by electrocutaneous stimulationIrene Lund
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Physiother Theory Pract 21:81-92. 2005..The threshold assessment procedure followed in this study may be a valuable tool in the clinical evaluation of sensory and pain assessments in pain patients... - Gender differences in electrical pain threshold responses to transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS)Irene Lund
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm SE 17177, Sweden
Neurosci Lett 375:75-80. 2005..The individual variation of the responses was greater in the women than in the men... 
Lack of interchangeability between visual analogue and verbal rating pain scales: a cross sectional description of pain etiology groupsIrene Lund
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, SE 171 77, Sweden
BMC Med Res Methodol 5:31. 2005..Interchangeability of recorded pain intensity captured in the two scales has been discussed earlier, but not in conjunction with taking the influence of pain etiology into consideration...- Are minimal, superficial or sham acupuncture procedures acceptable as inert placebo controls?Irene Lund
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Acupunct Med 24:13-5. 2006.... - Substance P microinjected into the periaqueductal gray matter induces antinociception and is released following morphine administrationAnnika Rosen
Department of Odontology, Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge Hospital, Box 4064, SE 141 04 Huddinge, Sweden
Brain Res 1001:87-94. 2004..Morphine administered systemically induces the release of SP in the ventrolateral PAG. We suggest that an increased release of SP in the PAG may contribute to opioid antinociception... - The Emperors sham - wrong assumption that sham needling is shamThomas Lundeberg
Foundation fo Acupuncture and Alternative Biological Treatment Methods, Sabbatsbergs Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Acupunct Med 26:239-42. 2008..Clinical guidelines based on such conclusions may therefore exclude suffering patients from valuable treatments... - Effects of minimal acupuncture in children with infantile colic - a prospective, quasi-randomised single blind controlled trialMarianne Reinthal
Department of Paediatrics, Institute of Health and Caring Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden
Acupunct Med 26:171-82. 2008..Treatments are generally not totally effective and some cause side effects. In this study we aimed to test the effect of light needling (minimal acupuncture) on crying... - Is it all about sex? Acupuncture for the treatment of pain from a biological and gender perspectiveIrene Lund
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Acupunct Med 26:33-45. 2008..Preferably, treatment recommendations should be based on studies using both women and men as the norm. Due to variability in results, findings from animal studies and experiments in healthy subjects should be interpreted with care... - Aspects of pain, its assessment and evaluation from an acupuncture perspectiveIrene Lund
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Acupunct Med 24:109-17. 2006..In the future, the use of studies with a naturalistic protocol together with individual assessment of individual pain responses could increase the internal and external validity... - Vibratory stimulation increase the electro-cutaneous sensory detection and pain thresholds in women but not in menLisbeth Dahlin
Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of Rehabilitation Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, SE 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
BMC Complement Altern Med 6:20. 2006..Vibratory stimulation is a potential method for the treatment of pain... - Corticotropin releasing factor in urine--a possible biochemical marker of fibromyalgia. Responses to massage and guided relaxationIrene Lund
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, von Eulers väg 4 8, Karolinska Institutet, SE 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
Neurosci Lett 403:166-71. 2006..Therapies such as massage and guided relaxation may be tried for the amelioration of pain and stress but further studies are required... - Are reviews based on sham acupuncture procedures in fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) valid?Thomas Lundeberg
Rehabilitation Medicine, UniversityClinic, Danderyds Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Acupunct Med 25:100-6. 2007..When conducting studies on acupuncture, the clinical condition or syndrome needs to be taken into account and the control procedure designed accordingly... - Acupuncture--self-appraisal and the reward systemThomas Lundeberg
Rehabilitation Medicine, UniversityClinic, Danderyds Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Acupunct Med 25:87-99. 2007..Self' may be seen as a shifting illusion, ceaselessly constructed and deconstructed, and the effect of acupuncture may reflect its status (as well as that of the therapist)... 
Treatment recommendations should take account of individual patient variation not just group responsesThomas Lundeberg
Foundation for Acupuncture and Alternative Biological Treatment Methods, Sabbatsbergs Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Acupunct Med 27:31-2. 2009....- Acupuncture for preconditioning of expectancy and/or Pavlovian extinctionThomas Lundeberg
Foundation fo Acupuncture and Alternative Biological Treatment Methods, Sabbatsbergs Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Acupunct Med 26:234-8. 2008..Based on the above we suggest that acupuncture should be tried (as an adjunct) before any specific therapy... - Pain in a Swedish spinal cord injury populationCecilia Norrbrink Budh
Spinalis SCI Unit, Karolinska Hospital and Faculty of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Clin Rehabil 17:685-90. 2003..To describe pain and associated variables in a prevalence group of persons with a sustained spinal cord injury (SCI) in the Swedish capital and its surroundings... 
Gastrointestinal symptoms of infantile colic and their change after light needling of acupuncture: a case series study of 913 infantsMarianne Reinthal
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, SE 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
Chin Med 6:28. 2011..abstract:..- On the threshold - evaluation of variability in effects of acupuncture in a gender perspectiveIrene Lund
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Chin Med 5:32. 2010..The present study indicates that evaluation of sensory and pain threshold response should be analysed separately in women and men...