Acupuncture for Depression in Pregnancy
March 23, 2010
During Pregnancy Acupuncture Found To Lessen Depression Symptoms, Stanford Study Shows.
The researchers found that women who received the depression-specific acupuncture experienced a bigger reduction in depression symptoms than the women in the other groups. The response rate – defined as having a 50 percent or greater reduction in symptoms – was 63 percent for the women receiving depression-specific acupuncture, compared with 44 percent for the women in the other two treatment groups combined.
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