Acupuncture for chronic pain? Clinical wisdom undecided despite over 4000 years of practice

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 331-333

  Harris, Cory S ^a   Lifshitz, Michael ^b   Raz, Amir ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NOTE; PHYSICIAN; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); ACUPUNCTURE ANALGESIA; ANALGESIA; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INSURANCE; METHODOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY; PLACEBO EFFECT; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UTILIZATION;

ANALGESIC AGENT; PLACEBO;

ACUPUNCTURE ANALGESIA; ANALGESICS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HOLISTIC HEALTH; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PHYSICIANS; PLACEBO EFFECT; PLACEBOS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84988299271     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: 15557162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2014.10.042     Document Type: Editorial

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