RT Book, Section
A1 Audette, Joseph F.
A2 Bajwa, Zahid H.
A2 Wootton, R. Joshua
A2 Warfield, Carol A.
SR Print(0)
ID 1131939465
T1 Acupuncture
T2 Principles and Practice of Pain Medicine, 3e
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071766838
LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1131939465
RD 2024/04/19
AB There  has  been  growing  interest  in  the  West  about  the  application  of  acupuncture  to  control  pain  since  President  Nixon's  well-publicized  trip  to  China  in  1971.  The  fascination  with  this  ancient  medical  modality  was  heightened  when  a  member  of  the  press  corps,  James  Reston,  received  acupuncture  during  an  appendectomy.  The  subsequent  publication  in  1998  of  the  National  Institutes  of  Health  (NIH)  consensus  statement  on  the  clinical  applications  of  acupuncture  based  on  over  2000  scientific  articles  brought  a  degree  of  optimism  that  acupuncture  would  become  a  mainstay  in  the  war  against  pain.1