The study of effects of acupuncture at SJ9 (Sidu) point on heart rate variability

Author

Chen, Chien-Vue ; Ke, Min-Da ; Lin, Ching-Huang ; Tsai, Hsien-Lin ; Kuo, Cheng-Deng

Author_Institution

Grad. Inst. of Electron. Eng., Nat. Yunlin Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Douliou, Taiwan

fYear

2010

fDate

6-9 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

453

Lastpage

455

Abstract

The aim of this study is to observe the effects of acupuncture at SJ9 (Sidu) point on heart rate variability and autonomic nerve activities. 13 healthy male subjects (mean±SD age, 22.7±1.8 years) joined this experiment. A randomized, single-blinded, placebo-controlled experiment was conducted in these healthy subjects, so that sympathetic and parasympathetic nerve activities indicated by power spectrum analysis of heart rate variability (HRV) are used to assess the effects of acupuncture applied at SJ9 (Sidu) point. For the control group, the vagal nerve activity and the sympathetic nerve activity exhibited significant decreases and increases in all periods comparing with the pre-stimulation period, respectively. In acupuncture group, the vagal tone and the sympathetic activity during the post-stimulation period were almost the same, but had differences after the stimulation.

Keywords

electrocardiography; neurophysiology; patient treatment; spectral analysis; HRV; SJ9 point; Sidu point; acupuncture; autonomic nerve activity; electrocardiogram recording; heart rate variability; parasympathetic nerve activity; placebo-controlled experiment; power spectrum analysis; sympathetic nerve activity; vagal nerve activity; Legged locomotion; Resonant frequency; Acupuncture; Autonomic nervous system (ANS); Heart rate variability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems (APCCAS), 2010 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7454-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APCCAS.2010.5775057

Filename

5775057