Auricular therapy includes acupuncture, electroacupuncture, acupressure, lasering,
cauterization, moxibustion, and bloodletting in the auricle. For 2500 years, people have …

Background A crisis in pain management persists, as does the epidemic of opioid overdose
deaths, addiction, and diversion. Pain medicine is meeting these challenges by returning to …

Medical pain management is in crisis; from the pervasiveness of pain to inadequate pain
treatment, from the escalation of prescription opioids to an epidemic in addiction, diversion …

Background Anxiety and fatigue adversely affect women's postpartum recovery, but few
effective non-pharmacological interventions are known to relieve these two common and …

Introduction: As positive evidence emerges for the use of an intervention to treat a health
problem, the intervention gradually becomes incorporated into treatment guidelines (TGs) or …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Auriculotherapy is widely used to relieve
painful conditions, therefore, allowing systematic reviews on the subject. However, they did …

Background and purpose Auriculotherapy is a therapeutic technique used for a wide variety
of conditions. Nevertheless, similarly to any health related intervention, the clinical use of …

Background: Current management for a symptom cluster of pain, fatigue, and disturbed
sleep in breast cancer patients has limited effects. Objective: The purposes of this …

Background and Objectives: It is estimated that 28 million people in the UK live with chronic
pain. A biopsychosocial approach to chronic pain is recommended which combines …

Objectives This systematic review aimed to summarize and provide an update on clinical
studies investigating the effects of auricular point acupressure (APA) on pain relief, in …