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Quality and Safety in Health Care, 2002 With the increasing availability of acupuncture in the United States, it is possible that patients will increasingly seek and use acupuncture for diverse indications. Research into acupuncture is still in its infancy, and much of the scientific evidence surrounding it is fragmentary and often contradictory.
Vickers, A, Wilson, P, Kleijnen, J
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Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2013 Worldwide, acupuncture is integral to everyday medical practice. In recent decades its practice has gained popularity in the United States. With increasing evidence of its clinical efficacy, acupuncture is now a widely practiced treatment modality in complementary and integrative medicine.
Tony Y, Chon, Mark C, Lee
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Contemporary management of pain in cirrhosis: Toward precision therapy for pain
Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract Chronic pain is highly prevalent in patients with cirrhosis and is associated with poor health‐related quality of life and poor functional status. However, there is limited guidance on appropriate pain management in this population, and pharmacologic treatment can be harmful, leading to adverse outcomes, such as gastrointestinal bleeding ...
Alexis Holman +4 more
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Artificial intelligence-directed acupuncture: a review
Chinese Medicine, 2022 Acupuncture is widely used around the whole world nowadays and exhibits significant efficacy against many chronic diseases, especially in pain-related diseases.
Yulin Wang +3 more
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Digital Chinese Medicine, 2023 Objective: This study aims to summarize the hotspots of acupuncture research in China and abroad in recent 10 years. Methods: The core collection of Web of Science was retrieved, and the literature on experimental and clinical research of acupuncture in ...
S.U.N. Meiling +6 more
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Acupuncture for cancer pain in adults. [PDF]
, 2011 BACKGROUND: Forty percent of individuals with early or intermediate stage cancer and 90% with advanced cancer have moderate to severe pain and up to 70% of patients with cancer pain do not receive adequate pain relief.
Akhileswaran +70 more
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Acupuncture randomized trials (ART) in patients with chronic low back pain and osteoarthritis of the knee - Design and protocols [PDF]
, 2003 Background: We report on the study design and protocols of two randomized controlled trials (Acupuncture Randomized Trials = ART) that investigate the efficacy of acupuncture in the treatment of chronic low back pain and osteoarthritis of the knee ...
Becker-Witt, C. +9 more
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Australian Veterinary Journal, 1974 Acupuncture has been used in China for at least 4,000 years and according to some authorities was said to have been devised about twenty-six centuries B.C. Its use in Britain dated back to the early years of the nineteenth century and indeed it was a subject which appeared on the pages of the first volume of the Lancet in 1823. It has also been used in
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Demystifying acupuncture [PDF]
Rheumatology, 2008 Acupuncture refers to the insertion of fine needles into the body at specific points for a therapeutic effect. The term comes from the Latin words 'acus' (needle) and 'punctura' (to puncture). The technique has been practiced in the Far East for at least 3000 yrs but it is only in the last 30 yrs that interest has developed in the West underpinned by ...
D, Pyne, N G, Shenker
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Acupuncture Point Localization Varies Among Acupuncturists [PDF]
, 2012 Background: Studies assessing the point-specific effect of acupuncture or the characteristics of acupuncture points (APs) tend to yield inconclusive results.
Ahn AC +27 more
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