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Introduction
Medical Doctor Specialized in Internal Medicine.
Diplomated on Acupuncture and Auricular Acupuncture.
Master Degree on Auricular Neuromodulation, PNEI and Posturology.
Focusing on the diagnostically relationship between stress, pain and fascial system and therapeutical approach based on acupuncture and neuromodulation for stress and pain relief.
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- Head of the Research Laboratory of Posturology and Neuromodulation RELPON
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The nerve vagus is the main visceral sensory which innervates torax and abdominal structures and the cymba conchae is also innervated by this same branch and other regions of the external ear received afferent innervations by this branch or shared with other nerves. Objective: The aim of study it was to observe the HRV on healthy adults and the the...
ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Introduction: The auricular neuromodulation (ANM) of the vagus nerve can be performed through the stimulation of the inferior and superior conchae area (tragus) and in the outer ear. Objective: The aim of study was to verify the effects of noninvasive auricular electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve on HRV and Blood Pressur...
According to Traditional Chinese Medicine “acupuncture is believed to restore the balance between Yin and Yang” and this can be understood in the Western medicine terminology as a “modulation of the equilibrium between parasympathetic and sympathetic activity”. The vast majority of studies concerning the mechanisms of action of acupuncture have bee...
Fascial Neuromodulation: clinical application of the extraordinary meridians for stress, pain and posture Acupuncture has been proposed to treat chronic pain and others stress-related diseases through modulating the imbalance between sympathetic and parasympathetic activities, restoring the homeostasis: it has shown that acupuncture can induce an a...
Purpose
Temporomandibular disorder (TMD) is a condition affecting the temporomandibular joint, chewing muscle, and surrounding structures, and often characterized by pain. Laser acupuncture (LA), consisting in the stimulation of traditional acupoints with low-intensity laser irradiation, has been reported as effective for treating chronic musculosk...
Aims: The present study investigate the relationship between pre-COVID-19 exercise levels and intensity and disease outcome. Methodologically we used an online survey comprising 20 questions was sent to participants to determine their exercise history, including type, intensity, and exacerbation of COVID-19 symptoms.
Study Design: A populational su...
Introdução: O envelhecimento da população associado à polifarmácia são desafios crescentes na área da saúde, à medida que aumenta, cada vez mais, o número de pessoas usando múltiplos medicamentos, especialmente idosos. Esse contexto potencializa o risco de interações e efeitos adversos nos pacientes, também conhecido como iatrogenia. Objetivo: anal...
Objective
This study evaluated the antihyperalgesic and anti-inflammatory effects of percutaneous vagus nerve electrical stimulation (pVNS) associated with physical exercise, i.e., swimming, in mice with peripheral inflammation.
Methods
The pain model was induced by intraplantar (i.pl.) injection of Freund’s complete adjuvant (CFA). Sixty-four mal...
In the context of the electroacupuncture (EA) neurobiological mechanisms, we have previously demonstrated the involvement of formyl peptide receptor 2 (FPR2/ALX) in the antihyperalgesic effect of EA. The present study investigated the involvement of peripheral FPR2/ALX in the antihyperalgesic effect of EA on inflammatory cytokines levels, oxidative...
This study evaluated the antihyperalgesic and anti-inflammatory effects of percutaneous vagus nerve electrical stimulation (pVNS) by comparing the effects of alternating and random frequencies in an animal model of persistent inflammatory hyperalgesia. The model was induced by Freund’s complete adjuvant (CFA) intraplantar (i.pl.) injection. Mice we...
Le evidenze scientifiche scaturite dagli studi di imaging cerebrale condotti negli ultimi vent'anni hanno sancito il meccanismo d'azione dell'agopuntura, sia somatica che auricolare, nella modulazione dei circuiti cortico-limbici coinvolti nella gestione delle funzioni omeostatiche. Le ricadute cliniche della neuromodulazione dello stress system co...
Yang Qiao Mai, one of the eight channels known as extraordinary meridians, is used in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) to relieve tension in the lateral muscles of the legs. According to TCM, each extraordinary vessel has main points, coalescent points, and one single master point (BL62 Shenmai for Yang Qiao Mai), which can influence the entire p...
Fibromyalgia (FM) syndrome is a common illness characterized by chronic widespread pain, sleep problems, fatigue, and cognitive difficulties. Dysfunctional neurotransmitter systems that influence the body’s endogenous stress response systems are thought to underlie many of the major FM-related symptoms. A model of FM pathogenesis suggests biologica...
Nociceptive innervation of the thoracolumbar fascia (TLF) has been investigated over the past few decades; however, these studies have not been compiled or collectively appraised. The purpose of this scoping review was to assess current knowledge regarding nociceptive innervation of the TLF to better inform future mechanistic and clinical TLF resea...
Nociceptive innervation of the thoracolumbar fascia (TLF) has been investigated over decades, however these studies have not been compiled or collectively appraised. The purpose of this scoping review was to assess current knowledge regarding nociceptive innervation of the TLF to better inform future mechanistic and clinical TLF research targeting...
The factors that characterize posture are neurophysiological, biomechanical, psychoemotional. Neurophysiological factors concern the modulation of tone, muscle tone is the result of a series of neuropsychological processes within the tonic-postural system. The tonic-postural system can become unbalanced for various reasons, including a tight lingua...
The aim of this study was to pinpoint the cerebral regions implicated during swallowing by comparing the brain activation areas associated with two different volitional movements: tongue protrusion and tongue elevation. Twenty-four healthy subjects (11—males 22 ± 2.9 y; 13—females 23 ± 4.1 y; were examined through functional magnetic resonance imag...
La moderna scienza della posturologia prevede l'integrazione tra i modelli neurofisiologico, biomeccanico e psicosomatico di interpretazione del fenomeno "postura"¹﹐². Nella complessità del sistema biologico l'aspetto neurofisiologico, rappresentato dai recettori cutanei, muscolari ed articolari a valenza proprio ed esterocettiva, finalizzati al ma...
Al momento attuale esistono pochi studi in letteratura sugli effetti posturali indotti dalla stimolazione del padiglione auricolare. R. Bourdiol, rifacendosi ai primi studi della mappa organica dei punti auricolari di P. Nogier, fu il primo a proporre la stimolazione auricolare per agire terapeuticamente sulla postura di un soggetto 1. Un altro ric...
Nel lavoro "The inflammatory reflex", pubblicato sulla rivista Nature nel 2002 ed in pubblicazioni successive, Kevin J Tracey propone l'Agopuntura, oltre alla Vagus Nerve SUmulaUon (VNS) e al Bio-feedback, tra le opzioni terapeuUche uUli a manipolare il riflesso infiammatorio neurogeno, per il tramite di un circuito vagale (1). La via colinergica a...
FASCIA E INTERAZIONI EMOZIONALI La sindrome miofasciale rappresenta la più frequente causa di dolore e motivo di consulto medico in ambito fisiatrico e riabilitativo. L'analisi della letteratura degli ultimi vent'anni inerente la fisiopatologia dello stress annovera la sindrome miofasciale nell'elenco delle patologie stress-correlate. Nell'osservaz...
The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of different periodization models on strength and local muscle endurance. Twenty trained men (25.45 ± 2.984 years, 75.34 ± 6.05 kg, 177.25 ± 4.92 cm, 23.96 ± 1.64 kg . m-2) were randomly assigned in two groups: undulling periodization (UPG) and traditional periodization group (TPG), respectively....
Introduction: Dermatoglyphics is the analysis of fingerprints as a genetic marker that can be related to health, sports and disease prognosis. Since the method analyzes genetic markers, finding a pattern or rare marker for certain diseases is very important, it may be a useful tool for disease prognosis and diagnosis. Objective: Investigate dermato...
Per sindrome fibromialgica si intende una patologia caratterizzata da dolore muscoloscheletrico cronico e diffuso in tutto il corpo. Il dolore è spesso associato ad alcuni sintomi, tra cui affaticamento, astenia, ansia, depressione, alterazione del ritmo sonno-veglia, parestesia, sindrome di Raynaud ed altri.
La diagnosi di fibromialgia viene effet...
Grazie alla conoscenza della chiave psicodinamica della costruzione del carattere si possono capire e si può intervenire sulle problematiche familiari, di coppia e del mondo del lavoro. La stessa chiave di lettura ci aiuta a comprendere i nostri comportamenti nevrotici, le ansie, le paure e come traduciamo i nostri problemi in sintomi psicosomatici...
A wide pulse pressure (PP) can provide important risk assessment information about myocardial infarction, carotid artery atherosclerosis, and global cardiovascular risk. Ambulatory pulse pressure (APP) does not have a well-known prognostic value in hypertensive patients.
To evaluate the relationship among high APP, atrial volumes, and cardiac funct...
Disk-space infection caused by organisms other than Mycobacterium tuberculosis or Brucella species seems to be an emerging disease due to an increase of the population at risk. However, few data are presently available from Italian institutions. In this article we report our "tot" month prospective experience on etiology and clinical presentation o...
The ability of trimetazidine (2,3,4, trimethoxybenzylpiperazine dihydrochloride, TMZ) to protect the myocardium against anthracycline (ANT)-induced cardiotoxicity during chemotherapy has been evaluated in female patients with breast cancer. A clinical trial was conducted in 61 patients subdivided into three groups: group 1 (n = 15, G1 ) treated wit...
Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) can improve cardiac hemodynamic performance in patients after myocardial infarction (MI). Little evidence is provided concerning the consequences of CR on atrial wave duration, and less is known about the link between pre-arrhythmogenic patterns and the cardiovascular performance improvement in these subjects. Twenty-six...
The Baker's cyst is a distension of the bursa subtendinea and is caused by noninfectious knee effusion secondary to arthrosis, meniscal tears, trauma, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, or any other form of sinovitis, like rheumatoid arthritis. An infected popliteal cyst is much less common; tuberculous arthritis is exceptional, in fact only four cases ar...
We recently observed (February 1999) a 68-year old patient with endocarditis on a prosthetic biologic valve caused by a vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis. Broth dilution tests showed susceptibility to ampicillin (MIC=0.5 microg/ml), no high resistance to aminoglycosides (MIC for gentamicin <500 microg/ml) and resistance to vancomycin (MIC...
A 76-year-old man suffered a stroke with global aphasia and right hemiplegia. The ischemic infarction was demonstrated by computed tomography. After 2 months, multiple brain abscesses developed at the site of the original infarction. Blood and abscess aspiration cultures yielded a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Infection was pr...
Minimum inhibitory concentrations of penicillin, ceftriaxone, ciprofloxacin, and moxifloxacin (BAY 12-8039), a new 8-methoxyquinolone, were determined for 60 cerebrospinal fluid isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae collected during January 1997-April 1998 at Italian medical centres. Three reference isolates with predetermined MIC values (two penici...
Heart failure, still nowadays an important cause of morbidity and mortality in many countries, is a complex of symptoms related to inadequate peripheric perfusion and often to the retention of fluid, that results from an impaired left ventricular pump function. Treatment of heart failure has seen considerable changes in the last years. Short term g...
Systemic infections induced by Salmonella arizonae have been described in patients with underlying cell-mediated immunodeficiencies, usually resident in southern countries of U.S. and in Mexico. This peculiar geographic distribution is probably due to the ingestion of meat or drugs from rattlesnakes, that Salmonella arizonae colonize in the intesti...
Fourteen patients (11 men and 3 women) with Streptococcus bovis infective endocarditis have been observed by the Infectious Disease Section of our Department of Clinical Medicine between the years 1988-1998. The mean age was 63.2 years (range 35-85 years); 5 patients previously suffered valvular disease or had a valvular prosthesis, the infection i...
