Treatment of chronic pain with acupuncture
P. K. Lee, T. W. Anderson, J. H. Modell and S. A. Saga
We performed 979 acupuncture treatments in 261 patients with chronic pain.
A substantial number of patients stated that they had relief immediately
following a series of four acupuncture treatments. It did not matter
whether the needles were placed in the traditional meridian locations of in
arbitrary fixed control points. Four weeks following treatment, 65% of the
patients reported little or no reduction in the intensity of their pain,
17% reported a 50% reduction, and 18% at least a 75% reduction.
