A safe “opioid” – is dry needling an efficacious alternative to opioids?
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Dry needling is acupuncture.
Academically, we agree with the recent Education and Practice paper by Zhou et al, which states that, for the treatment of musculoskeletal disorders, dry needling and acupuncture overlap greatly in their origin, techniques and theories, and dry needling is one subcategory of Western medical acupuncture, and is thus acupuncture. As current training and clinical practice of acupuncturists involve...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Complementary & Alternative Medicine
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2381-1803
DOI: 10.15406/ijcam.2019.12.00440