Miho Takayama

No ORCID on file · 3 papers in corpus
rct 2026
The journal of pain ·doi:10.1016/j.jpain.2025.105584

Vulvodynia, vulvar pain of unknown etiology, lasting 3 months or longer, affects 7% of American women, and has no consistently effective treatment. We aimed to test the efficacy of acupuncture on vulvar pain and dyspareunia and explore the …

other 2022
Contemporary clinical trials communications ·doi:10.1016/j.conctc.2022.101029

BACKGROUND: Vulvodynia, vulvar pain of unknown origin lasting at least 3 months, affects 7% of American women. Dyspareunia, its frequent companion, renders sexual intercourse virtually impossible. Although few therapies are efficacious and …

rct 2018
Pilot and feasibility studies ·doi:10.1186/s40814-018-0265-9

BACKGROUND: Efficacy of acupuncture is difficult to demonstrate without a feasible double-blind milieu. Double-blind acupuncture needles have been validated in single session protocols with one or two needles but not been tested in a protoc…