Despite wide use in clinical practice, acupuncture remains a controversial treatment for
chronic pain. Our objective was to update an individual patient data meta-analysis to …

Background & aims Musculoskeletal pain, the most common cause of disability globally, is
most frequently managed in primary care. People with musculoskeletal pain in different body …

Background For many years, low back pain has been both the leading cause of days lost
from work and the leading indication for medical rehabilitation. The goal of the German …

Back pain affects most adults, causes disability for some, and is a common reason for
seeking healthcare. In the United States, opioid prescription for low back pain has …

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 …

In the last decade, preclinical investigations of electroacupuncture mechanisms on
persistent tissue injury (inflammatory), nerve injury (neuropathic), cancer, and visceral pain …

Importance The opioid crisis creates challenges for cancer pain management. Acupuncture
confers clinical benefits for chronic nonmalignant pain, but its effectiveness in cancer …

Pain management for cancer patients should include pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic
interventions. Integrative medicine therapies, such as mind-body practice, acupuncture …

Importance The long-term prophylactic effects of acupuncture for migraine are uncertain.
Objective To investigate the long-term effects of true acupuncture compared with sham …

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a systematic healthcare system developed from
clinical experience based on a scientific model of regulation. TCM relies on unique theories …