P02.58. The feasibility of integrating ear acupuncture into the aeromedical evacuation system from Ramstein Air Base (Germany) to Andrews Air Force Base (US)
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Purpose Recently, military leaders have endorsed the need for holistic, non-pharmacologically based approaches to pain. Acupuncture has been shown to be an effective adjunctive therapy for specific pain conditions; however, acupuncture has occupied only a marginal role in pain management. We investigated what would happen if a simple ear acupuncture procedure was introduced into the medical care delivered in the aeromedical evacuation system to wounded warfighters being evacuated from Germany to the US.
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