Use of acupuncture for pain management in an academic Korean medicine hospital: a retrospective review of electronic medical records.
CONCLUSIONS: Acupuncture was primarily used for the treatment of low back, neck and shoulder pain with a wide range of related interventions at an academic medical centre for traditional Korean medicine. These data reflect real clinical practice and should inform the design of future prospective clinical research of acupuncture.
PMID: 23449178 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Acupuncture in Medicine : journal of the British Medical Acupuncture Society - Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Kim KH, Kim YR, Noh SH, Kang KW, Kim JK, Yang GY, Lee BR Tags: Acupunct Med Source Type: research
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