An in vitro assay of collagen fiber alignment by acupuncture needle rotation |
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Authors: | Margaret Julias Lowell T Edgar Helen M Buettner David I Shreiber |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA;(2) Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA |
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Abstract: | Background During traditional acupuncture therapy, soft tissues attach to and wind around the acupuncture needle. To study this phenomenon in a controlled and quantitative setting, we performed acupuncture needling in vitro. |
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