Acupuncture in the military for rapid pain relief on the battlefield

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Integrative medicine (IM) is coming of age in the US military, with the first example of widespread implementation of an IM technique being the popular use of acupuncture to treat pain in combat settings. The successful integration of this IM technique, its use by military medical acupuncturists, and implications for introducing other IM programs in the future are examined in an Editorial published in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news