Trial reportJournal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM
Outcomes of acupuncture for chronic pain in urban primary care.
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- Acupuncture and related interventions for symptoms of chronic kidney disease.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
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- "It's Better in a Group Anyway": Patient Experiences of Group and Individual Acupuncture.Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) · 2018Trial
- The majority of Norwegian patients with treatment-resistant chronic pain regained normal national health standards within 12 months after De-Qi acupuncture - a prospective observational propensity score matched study.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- SIO-ASCO guideline on integrative medicine for cancer pain management: implications for racial and ethnic pain disparities.JNCI cancer spectrum · 2023Article
- Barriers and Facilitators to Implementing Bundled Acupuncture and Yoga Therapy to Treat Chronic Pain in Community Healthcare Settings: A Feasibility Pilot.Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) · 2021Article
- Group Acupuncture Therapy With Yoga Therapy for Chronic Neck, Low Back, and Osteoarthritis Pain in Safety Net Setting for an Underserved Population: Design and Rationale for a Feasibility Pilot.Global advances in health and medicine · 2020Article
- What if Acupuncture Were Covered by Insurance for Pain Management? A Cross-Sectional Study of Cancer Patients at One Academic Center and 11 Community Hospitals.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2019Article
- Traditional Chinese Medicine Explanatory Models of Depressive Disorders: A Qualitative Study.Culture, medicine and psychiatry · 2019Article
- Acupuncture for Chronic Pain in the Vermont Medicaid Population: A Prospective, Pragmatic Intervention Trial.Global advances in health and medicine · 2018Article
- "I Felt Like It Was God's Hands Putting the Needles In": A Qualitative Analysis of the Experience of Acupuncture for Chronic Pain in a Low-Income, Ethnically Diverse, and Medically Underserved Patient Population.Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) · 2015Article
- Disease Prevention and Health Promotion: How Integrative Medicine Fits.American journal of preventive medicine · 2015Article
- Interprofessional Competencies in Integrative Primary Healthcare.Global advances in health and medicine · 2015Article
- Low-level laser therapy as a treatment for chronic pain.Frontiers in physiology · 2014Article
- Group Acupuncture Therapy With Yoga Therapy for Chronic Neck, Low Back, and Osteoarthritis Pain in Safety Net Settings for an Underserved Population: A Feasibility Pilot Study.Global advances in integrative medicine and healthArticle
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Abstract
purposeThe purpose of this study was to describe outcomes of the Acupuncture to Decrease Disparities in Outcomes of Pain Treatment (ADDOPT) trial, testing acupuncture as an adjunct to usual treatment for chronic pain in urban health centers.
methodWe conducted a quasi-experimental trial. Primary care patients (>21 years old) with chronic pain caused by osteoarthritis or neck or back pain at 4 hospital-owned safety net health centers in the Bronx, New York, received weekly acupuncture treatments provided by supervised acupuncture students for up to 14 weeks. Pain and functional status were assessed during a 6-week run-in period before acupuncture, during treatment, and after treatment.
resultsOf 495 referred patients, 226 (47%) initiated acupuncture. Back pain was the most common referring diagnosis (59.5%) followed by osteoarthritis (16.3%). Patients were older (mean age, 54.3 years), mostly insured by Medicaid (60.4%), often receiving disability (38.3%), and often in poor or fair overall health (46.7%). They had high baseline levels of pain (mean severity per the Brief Pain Inventory, 6.8; mean days with pain, 12.3 of 14). The mean number of treatments was 9.7 (standard deviation, 7.3). Pain severity improved from baseline (6.8 vs. 5.6 at 12 weeks and 5.5 at 24 weeks), as did physical well-being (31.8 vs. 35.7 at 12 weeks and 35.3 at 24 weeks). Using hierarchical linear modeling methods, reduction in pain severity between baseline and the treatment phase was significant (P < .001). Improvements in physical well-being were significant at 12 and 24 weeks after baseline (P < .001).
conclusionsReferred primary care patients experienced high levels of pain and pain-related disability. Weekly acupuncture was associated with short-term improvements in pain and quality of life.
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