Objective: To explore an interprofessional group of health care providers' perspectives on
the facilitators and barriers to implementation of an inpatient acupuncture service for pain …

Pain is an enormous and prevalent problem that troubles people of all ages worldwide. The
effectiveness of acupuncture for pain management has been strongly verified by large …

Background Increasingly, many patients believe that a combined approach of
complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), including acupuncture, and conventional …

State legislation that authorizes any healthcare profession is known as the Practice Act. In
order for a profession to establish a recognizable national presence and be integrated into …

Acupuncture was first legalized in Maryland in 1973. By the end of 2009, regulatory
legislation had passed in all but six states. The growth of acupuncture is most commonly …

No known research has investigated patients' attitudes toward different acupuncture
techniques, including those that require less training to administer and potentially could be …

Evidence-based medicine offers important opportunities and poses critical challenges to the
acupuncture profession. Having a clear understanding of what evidence-based medicine is …

There is frequently a disconnect between standard medical treatment in the United States
and other options such as acupuncture. According to Austin, Ramamonjiarivelo, Qu, and …

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) skills are critical to clinical effectiveness and to developing
and maintaining an effective intellectual ecosystem of clinicians, researchers, policy-makers …

This multi-part article provides a review of the literature related to factors associated with the
challenges of current US acupuncture practice. Considering the complexity of the …