P02.138. Acupuncture and meditation for military veterans: patient satisfaction and self reported symptom reduction
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Purpose Post-deployment health care for military veterans presents challenges to existing treatment models. Currently, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) sees numerous veterans with chronic, difficult to treat, and medically unexplained symptoms including, but not limited to, fatigue, chronic pain, headaches, gastrointestinal distress, concentration difficulties, disturbed sleep, anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress. The VA is increasingly investigating complementary medicine and integrative health care as resources to enhance its provision of patient-centered, empirically-supported care. Since 2007, the VA’s War Related Illness and Injury Study Center (WRIISC) in Washington, D.C. has offered outpatient acupuncture and yoga nidra (meditation) clinics as a complement to standard care for veterans of any combat era.
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عنوان ژورنال:
دوره 12 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012