Volume 28, Issue 2, 12 May 2015, Pages 74-80
Chinese medicine for pain: An evidence-based update (Article)
a
Département d’anesthésie-réanimation, groupe hospitalier et Faculté de médecine, Paris Sud Bicêtre, Paris, France
b DIU d’acupuncture scientifique, Paris XI (Sud), Paris, France
b DIU d’acupuncture scientifique, Paris XI (Sud), Paris, France
Abstract
Pain prevention and
treatment is a major indication for traditional Chinese medicine. A lot
of recent controlled trials were conducted with acupuncture for the
treatment of postoperative pain and knee osteoarthritis. In these
trials, acupuncture, when used as complementary of usual management is
efficacious, but usually not statistically different to
sham-acupuncture. The other procedures of Chinese medicine are less
evaluated. Regular qi-gong sessions seem to procure substantial benefits
to patients with fibromyalgia and chronic neck pain. © 2015,
Springer-Verlag France.
Author keywords
Acupuncture; Alternative and complementary medicine; Chronic neck pain; Clinical trials; Evidence-based medicine; Fibromyalgia; Herbal medicine; Knee osteoarthritis; Massage therapy; Postoperative pain; Qi gong; Traditional Chinese medicine; Tui na
Indexed keywords
EMTREE medical terms: acupuncture; Article; Chinese
medicine; clinical effectiveness; controlled clinical trial (topic);
evidence based medicine; fibromyalgia; human; knee osteoarthritis; neck
pain; pain; postoperative pain; qigong; treatment indication
