ReviewChinese journal of integrative medicine2016
Complementary and alternative medicine therapies for chronic pain.
Review in Chinese journal of integrative medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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37 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 67 citations in OpenAlex.
- Acupuncture for postoperative pain of lumbar disc herniation: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Effectiveness of Curcumin in Reducing Self-Rated Pain-Levels in the Orofacial Region: A Systematic Review of Randomized-Controlled Trials.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- [Effect of Auriculotherapy on Musculoskeletal Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis].Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing · 2022Pooled it
- Analgesic Efficacy of Curcuma longa (Curcumin) after Surgical Periodontal Therapy.Oral health & preventive dentistry · 2022Trial
- A scoping review of applications of natural language processing for chronic pain research.Discover artificial intelligence · 2026Review
- A Prospective Observational Study of a 2-Week Integrative Inpatient Therapy on Patients with Fibromyalgia Syndrome.Biomedicines · 2025Article
- Exploring How Ethnoculturally Diverse Surgical Patients and Families Perceive and Deal with Pain Before Hospital Admissions in Ethiopia: Qualitative Descriptive Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Systemic Administration of the Phytochemical, Myricetin, Attenuates the Excitability of Rat Nociceptive Secondary Trigeminal Neurons.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Phytochemical-based therapeutics from traditional eastern medicine: analgesic effects and ion channel modulation.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Effect of Korean Medicine Treatment on Patients with Postherpetic Neuralgia: A Retrospective Chart Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Adverse Events of the Long-Term Use of Opioids for Chronic Non-cancer Pain: A Narrative Review.Cureus · 2024Review
- Do Electrical Stimulation Devices Reduce Pain and Improve Function?-A Comparative Review.Pain and therapy · 2023Review
- Behavioral modeling and neuroimaging of impaired risky decision making in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain.Neurophotonics · 2023Article
- Mechanism of traditional Chinese medicine in treating overactive bladder.International urology and nephrology · 2023Review
- Sleep disorders in chronic pain and its neurochemical mechanisms: a narrative review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Review
- #ChronicPain: Automated Building of a Chronic Pain Cohort from Twitter Using Machine Learning.Health data science · 2023Article
- Physician Office Visits That Included Complementary Health Approaches in U.S. Adults: 2005-2015.Journal of integrative and complementary medicine · 2022Review
- Postoperative Analgesic and Anti-inflammatory Effectiveness of Ginger (Zingiber officinale) and NSAIDs as Adjuncts to Nonsurgical Periodontal Therapy for the Management of Periodontitis.Oral health & preventive dentistry · 2022Article
- [Kratom - a short review for pain medicine].Schmerz (Berlin, Germany) · 2022Review
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Pain afflflicts over 50 million people in the US, with 30.7% US adults suffering with chronic pain. Despite advances in therapies, many patients will continue to deal with ongoing symptoms that are not fully addressed by the best conventional medicine has to offer them. The patients frequently turn to therapies outside the usual purview of conventional medicine (herbs, acupuncture, meditation, etc.) called complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Academic and governmental groups are also starting to incorporate CAM recommendations into chronic pain management strategies. Thus, for any physician who care for patients with chronic pain, having some familiarity with these therapies-including risks and benefits-will be key to helping guide patients in making evidence-based, well informed decisions about whether or not to use such therapies. On the other hand, if a CAM therapy has evidence of both safety and efficacy then not making it available to a patient who is suffering does not meet the need of the patient. We summarize the current evidence of a wide variety of CAM modalities that have potential for helping patients with chronic pain in this article. The triad of chronic pain symptoms, ready access to information on the internet, and growing patient empowerment suggest that CAM therapies will remain a consistent part of the healthcare of patients dealing with chronic pain.
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