Acupuncture for the trauma spectrum response: Scientific foundations, challenges to implementation

Medical Acupuncture

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 249-262

  Jonas, Wayne B ^a   Walter, Joan A G ^a   Fritts, Matt ^a   Niemtzow, Richard C ^b  

^a SAMUELI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b United States Air Force Acupuncture Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Anxiety; Depression; Integrative Medicine; Military; Moral Injury; Pain; PTSD; TBI; Trauma Spectrum Response

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; DEPRESSION; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; FIBROMYALGIA; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE; IRRITABILITY; LABOR PAIN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; MILITARY MEDICINE; MOOD DISORDER; PAIN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP DISORDER; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

EID: 84555196189     PISSN: 19336586     EISSN: 19336594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/acu.2011.0840     Document Type: Article

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