Current pain and headache reports
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Curr Pain Headache Rep · Dec 2002
Case ReportsAcupuncture in pain medicine: an integrated approach to the management of refractory pain.
As the acupuncture nomenclature permeates medical literature, the artificial barriers to integration of acupuncture and allopathic medicine are disappearing. More patients are looking to their physicians for guidance on how to incorporate acupuncture into their health care, and pain physicians are accepting the challenge. ⋯ Used in an integrated medical model, acupuncture is well suited to deal with many of the functional problems that allopathic medicine is not equipped to address. The result is patient and physician satisfaction.