Treatment of Chronic Pain With Acupuncture
- Peter Ky Lee, MD;
- Thorkild W. Andersen, MD;
- Jerome H. Modell, MD;
- Segundina A. Saga, MD
Abstract
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 or 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.
(JAMA 232:1133-1135, 1975)
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Reprint requests to Department of Anesthesiology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Box 721, J. Hillis Miller Health Center, Gainesville, FL 32610 (Dr. Lee).
