Acupuncture has been used in China and other Asian countries for the past 3000 yr.
Recently, this technique has been gaining increased popularity among physicians and …

Acupuncture and related techniques are increasingly practiced in conventional medical
settings, and the number of patients willing to use these techniques is increasing. Despite …

Most patients who undergo surgical procedures experience acute postoperative pain, but
evidence suggests that less than half report adequate postoperative pain relief. Many …

Acupuncture has been used in the Far East for more than 2000 years. Since the early 1970s,
this technique has been gaining popularity among Western medical community. A number of …

BACKGROUND: Acupuncture and related percutaneous neuromodulation therapies can be
used to treat patients with both acute and chronic pain. In this review, we critically examined …

Acupuncture has been shown to be effective in experimental and clinical acute pain settings.
This study aims to evaluate the effect of preoperative electroacupuncture (EA) on …

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of Acupuncture‐point stimulation
(APS) in postoperative pain control compared with sham/placebo acupuncture or standard …

The aim of this systematic review is to assess the effectiveness of acupuncture as an
adjunctive analgesic method to standard anaesthetic procedures for surgery and to …

Although systematic studies have demonstrated that acupuncture or electroacupuncture
(EA) analgesia is based on their accelerating endogenous opioid release to activate opioid …

Objectives• The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of acupoint electrical
stimulation with patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) on reducing acute pain, nausea, and …