Acupuncture Use In Pediatric Disease: A Short Review

Authors

  • Hamid Reza Bahrami Assistant Professor of Chinese medicine, Faculty of Traditional Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
  • Masumeh Saeidi Students Research Committee, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
  • Mohammadreza Noras Students Research Committee, Faculty of Traditional Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
Abstract:

Abstract: Acupuncture is increasingly used in children; however, the safety of pediatric acupuncture has yet to be reported from systematic review. Acupuncture has become a dominant complementary and alternative modality in clinical practice today but its associated risk has been questioned. The National Institutes of Health Consensus Statement states “one of the advantages of acupuncture is that the incidence of adverse effects is substantially lower than that of many drugs or other accepted procedures for the same conditions.

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volume 2  issue 3.2

pages  69- 72

publication date 2014-08-01

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