Effectiveness and safety of auricular acupuncture on adjuvant analgesia in patients with total knee arthroplasty: a randomized sham-controlled trial

ConclusionIn this study, AA was shown to be an effective and safe complementary and alternative therapy for pain relief after TKA, which was able to reduce the total postoperative dose of additional painkillers, decrease serum CRP 1 day after surgery, and improve the degree of postoperative nausea.Clinical trial registrationwww.chictr.org.cn, ChiCTR2100054403.
Source: Frontiers in Neurology - Category: Neurology Source Type: research