Heart Rate Variability and Acupuncture

This book focuses on the latest innovative aspects concerning HRV and complementary medicine. Altogether, 19 manuscripts underwent a peer-review process. Some of the chapters report results of HRV in combination with different kinds of acupuncture (manual needle acupuncture, laser acupuncture, electroacupuncture). Data from 233 patients, 42 healthy volunteers and 49 animals were evaluated and are presented in this book.

- Heart rate variability
- Teleacupuncture
- Modernization of acupuncture (evidence-based medicine)
- High-tech acupuncture
- Investigation of innovative acupuncture stimulation methods (needle, laser, and electroacupuncture)
- Scientific evaluation of physiological effects of acupuncture
- Biomedical assessment of acupuncture
- Sino-Austrian transcontinental studies