Complementary therapies in clinical practice
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Complement Ther Clin Pract · May 2013
Clinical TrialExploratory study on the efficacy of reflexology for pain threshold and tolerance using an ice-pain experiment and sham TENS control.
To explore the efficacy of reflexology on acute pain induced in healthy human subjects using a sham TENS control. ⋯ These findings demonstrate that reflexology produces antinociceptive effects in a controlled experiment and suggest the possibility that reflexology may be useful on its own or as an adjunct to medication in the treatment of pain conditions in man.