A new study indicates that acupuncture can improve exercise tolerance in patients suffering from chronic heart failure.
Patients with this disease suffer from shortness of breath and fatigue brought on by physical exercise.
The needles do not increase the heart's pump function, but they seem to have an influence on skeletal muscle strength and thus can increase the walk distance that heart patients can cover.
In a study where patients were given ten sessions of acupuncture on points that boost general strength according to Traditional Chinese Medicine, the results showed that these patients could walk longer distances, recovered more quickly and tended to feel subjectively less exhausted.
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The findings have been published in the medical journal "Heart".
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