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Wrist-Ankle Acupuncture Relieves Postoperative Pain After Milligan-Morgan Hemorrhoidectomy for Mixed Hemorrhoids: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial [PDF]

Journal of Pain Research
Min Xu,1,* Wenjuan Li,1,* Xiaoyan Wang,1 Yulei Gao,1 Lingyi Qi,1 Liping Xu,1 Yuhua He,1 Changsheng Dong,2 Jing Zhang,1 Huachun Zhang,1 Jiawen Wang3 1Nursing Department, Longhua Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine,
Xu M, Li W, Wang X, Gao Y, Qi L, Xu L, He Y, Dong C, Zhang J, Zhang H, Wang J   +10 more
doaj   +2 more sources

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, Neehar Parikh, Dan J. Clauw, David A. Williams, Elliot B. Tapper   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Are All Placebo Effects Equal? Placebo Pills, Sham Acupuncture, Cue Conditioning and Their Association [PDF]

, 2013
Placebo treatments and healing rituals have been used to treat pain throughout history. The present within-subject crossover study examines the variability in individual responses to placebo treatment with verbal suggestion and visual cue conditioning by
A Hrobjartsson, AD Wasan, AH Roberts, AJ de Craen, AL Geers, AL Geers, Amanda Cook, AR Goldman, B Whalley, Brian Claggett, DD Price, DG Finniss, DL Morton, EF Traut, EW Passarelli, GH Montgomery, H Brody, Irving Kirsch, J Charron, J Kleinhenz, J Kong, J Kong, J Kong, J Kong, Jian Kong, Jordan W. Smoller, K Linde, K Linde, K Streitberger, L Colloca, Mark Vangel, NJ Voudouris, P Huber, P White, Randy L. Gollub, RF Grenfell, RH Gracely, RH Gracely, Rosa Spaeth, S Gelfand, Sam Eldabe, TD Wager, Ted J. Kaptchuk, TJ Kaptchuk, TJ Kaptchuk, TJ Kaptchuk, TJ Kaptchuk, TJ Kaptchuk, U Bingel, U Bingel, V De Pascalis, WJ Conover   +51 more
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Acupuncture analgesia: an experimental investigation. [PDF]

BMJ, 1976
A study was designed to establish whether acupuncture has any analgesic properties beyond those of suggestion. In three one-hour experimental sessions the increases in detection thresholds and tolerances for thermal pain at six body locations on 12 subjects were compared.
D, Stewart, J, Thomson, I, Oswald
openaire   +2 more sources

Acupuncture for pain control after degenerative lumbar spine surgery

European Journal of Medical Research, 2022
Background Wound pain after surgery for lumbar spine disease may interfere with patients’ recovery. Acupuncture is commonly used for pain management, but its efficacy for postoperative pain control is unclear.
Bo-An Chen, Wen-Chun Deng, Mao-Yu Chen
doaj   +1 more source

Acupuncture Analgesia in Total Thyroidectomy for Graves’ Disease: A Case Report

Journal of Acupuncture Research, 2023
This study included a 42-year-old female farmer with a 2-year history of Graves’ disease who visited the hospital for a total thyroidectomy for her grade III goiter based on World Health Organization classification. Besides Hegu (LI4) and Neiguan (PC6)
Dong Phuong Tran
doaj   +1 more source

Acupuncture Mechanisms: Anesthesia, Analgesia and Protection on Organ Functions

World Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 2015
Acupuncture, as a healing art in traditional Chinese medicine, has been widely used to treat various diseases. In the history of acupuncture anesthesia, in the past decades, mechanisms of acupuncture analgesia has been widely investigated, and in recent ...
Jing Wang, You Wan
doaj   +1 more source

Postoperative analgesic efficacy of ear acupuncture in patients undergoing abdominal hysterectomy: a randomized controlled trial

BMC Anesthesiology, 2020
Background Numerous studies have revealed that acupuncture can increase the somatic pain threshold. Electro-acupuncture (EA) can help pain-relieving with minimal physiologic disturbance.
Hamdy A. Hendawy, Mohamed E. Abuelnaga
doaj   +1 more source

Immediate Analgesic Effect of Acupuncture in Patients With Primary Dysmenorrhea: A fMRI Study

Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021
Primary dysmenorrhea (PDM) is a common gynecological disease characterized by lower abdominal pain. Acupuncture is considered a good alternative therapy for PDM. However, the central mechanism of the analgesic effect of acupuncture is largely unknown. In
Yanan Wang, Jing Xu, Qing Zhang, Qi Zhang, Ya Yang, Wei Wei, Xiaoli Guo, Fanrong Liang, Siyi Yu, Jie Yang   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pain management after open thoracotomy 2025: procedure-specific postoperative pain management (PROSPECT) recommendations. [PDF]

Anaesthesia
Summary Introduction Adequate postoperative pain control is crucial for rehabilitation after open thoracotomy. The aim of this systematic review was to update the previous procedure‐specific postoperative pain management recommendations for patients undergoing open thoracotomy.
Lemoine A, Alber A, Joshi GP, Van de Velde M, Dewinter G, Pogatzki-Zahn E, Bonnet MP, PROSPECT Working Group of the European Society of Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Therapy.   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources