Acupuncture for pain relief in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: A systematic review

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1249-1256

  Wang, Chenchen ^a,c   De Pablo, Paola ^a   Chen, Xiaoyan ^b   Schmid, Christopher ^a   McAlindon, Timothy ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; DICLOFENAC; INDOMETACIN; METHOTREXATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOTALIN;

ACUPUNCTURE; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA BASE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HUMAN; MORNING STIFFNESS; NEEDLE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ACUPUNCTURE ANALGESIA; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CHINESE MEDICINE; PAIN; REVIEW;

ACUPUNCTURE ANALGESIA; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 54949106959     PISSN: 21514658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.24009     Document Type: Article

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