Fertility Research

Acupuncture

FEATURED RESEARCH STUDIES

• Research Shows that Acupuncture increases Sperm Motility Rates. Acupuncture may have significant positive effects on the percentage of motile sperm in infertile men who have severe oligoasthenozoospermia.
• Paul Magarelli, Ph.D., M.D. and Diane Cridennda, L. Ac. (FABORM) published an Acupuncture/IVF Study in this month's Fertility and Sterility. Listen to the recorded radio interview about their research and how Acupuncture and IVF are being used to make changes and increase IVF success rates.
• New Study on PCOS: For Women With PCOS, Acupuncture And Exercise May Bring Relief, Reduce Risks Study finds acupuncture and exercise decrease a key marker for disease.
• Changes in serum cortisol and prolactin associated with acupuncture during controlled ovarian hyperstimulation in women undergoing in vitro fertilization–embryo transfer treatment

Environment and Fertility

• "The Dirty Dozen" - There is mounting scientific evidence to support the claim that environmental factors have an effect on fertility. From common household items to cancer treatments, there is a myriad of chemicals that both men and women may wish to avoid to help increase one’s ability to conceive a child. (from The American Fertility Association)

Female Infertility

• Treating Fallopian Tube Occlusion with Manual Physical Therapy
• Changes in serum cortisol and prolactin associated with acupuncture during controlled ovarian hyperstimulation in women undergoing in vitro fertilization–embryo transfer treatment
  
• Clinical studies on the mechanism for acupuncture stimulation of ovulation
• Auricular acupuncture in the treatment of female infertility
• Treatment of functional hypothalamic amenorrhea with hypnotherapy
• Millions of Americans Struggle to Conceive
• How to Prepare Your Mind & Body to Significantly Enhance your Fertility
• Role of acupuncture in the treatment of female infertility
• Acupuncture Treatment For Infertile Women Undergoing Intracytoplasmic Sperm injection
• Substitution of Acupuncture for HCG in Ovulation Induction
• Effects of Electro-Acupuncture on Nerve Growth Factor and Ovarian Morphology in Rats with Experimentally Induced Polycystic Ovaries
• Reduction of blood flow impedance in the uterine arteries of infertile women with electro acupuncture

 

Male Infertility

• Influence of acupuncture on idiopathic male infertility in assisted reproductive technology
• Direct effects of Chinese herbal medicine hachuekkito on sperm movement
• Effect of acupuncture on sperm parameters of males suffering from subfertility related to low sperm quality
• A substance isolated from Cornus officinalis enhances the motility of human sperm
• 87 cases of male infertility treated by bushen shengjing pill in clinical observation and evaluation on its curative effects
• Effects of guizhi fuling wan on male infertility with varicocele
• Effects of acupuncture and moxa treatment in patients with semen abnormalities
• Oriental Medicine and Male Sexual Disorders
• Quantitative evaluation of spermatozoa ultrastructure after acupuncture treatment for idiopathic male infertility
• Lap tops and Male fertility

 

Mind/Body Group Support

• Impact of Group psychological interventions on pregnancy rates in infertile women.
• The mind body program for infertility A new behavioral treatment approach for women with infertility
• The neural basis of the complex mental task of meditation

 

Mind/Body Psychology

• The prevalence and predictability of depression in infertile women.
• Distress and Conception in Infertile Women A Complementary Approach
• Psychological improvement in infertile women after behavioral treatment A replication
• Infertility the impact of stress the benefit of counseling
• Psychological distress and infertility forty years of research
• The psychological impact of infertility a comparison with patients with other medical conditions
• Psychosocial experiences in women facing fertility problems
• Subjective well being in infertile couples
• Psychosocial distress and infertility men and women respond differently
• Coping with male infertility Gender differences
• Psychosocial treatment and demographic predictors of the stress associated with infertility
• Behaviorally induced reproductive compromise in women and men

 

Articles

• Relax Fertility Improves When Stress Is Set Aside, Studies Find
• Stress speeds aging
• Stress - A New Fertility Factor?

 

Chinese Medicine : Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine

• An experimental study on inhibitory effect of Chinese medicine tai
• Experimental study of effect on tonifying kidney herbs in pituitary ovary adrenal gland of androgen sterilized rats
• A preliminary immunopharmacological study of an antiendometriotic herbal medicine keishi bukuryo gan
• Acupuncture: A Cure for Infertility?
• Influence of acupuncture on the pregnancy rate in patients who undergo assisted reproduction therapy
• Acupuncture Normalizes Dysfunction of the Hypothalamic Pituitary Ovarian Axis
• Relationship Between Blood Radioimmunoreactive Beta-Endorphin and Hand Skin Temperature During The Electro-Acupuncture Induction of Ovulation
• Acupuncture and IVF poor responder
• Acupuncture and good prognosis IVF patients
• Chinese Medicine Article from Alternative Medicine Mag

 

Nutrition & Exercise & Lifestyle

• Adjuvant L Arginie treatment for in vitro fertilization in poor responder patients
• Decreased oxygen consumption during exercise with elicitation of the relaxation response
• Nutritional ways to decrease male infertility
• Nutrition for fertility
• Maternal, Paternal Alcohol Use Affects Success of Assisted Reproduction
• Miscarriage rates increase with alcohol consumption
• Pesticides and infertility
• Coffee and infertility
• Smoking and infertility

 

Pregnancy

• The effect of relaxation therapy on preterm labor outcomes
• The efficacy of biobehavioral and compliance interventions in the adjunctive treatment of mild pregnancy
• Treatment of hypertension in pregnancy by relaxation and biofeedback
• Acupuncture May Be Helpful for Pelvic Girdle Pain
• Pelvic Pain in Pregnancy
• Breech Presentation
• Prebirth acupuncture
• Cervical ripening

 

Yoga

• Fertility Yoga
• Link to Alternative Medicine Magazine article on yoga

 

Massage

• Treating Female Infertility and Improving IVF Pregnancy Rates With a Manual Physical Therapy Technique
• Increasing Orgasm and Decreasing Dyspareunia by a Manual Physical Therapy Technique
• Treating Female Infertility and Improving IVF Pregnancy Rates With a Manual Physical Therapy Technique
• Alternative Medicine Magazine article