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ArticleHolistic nursing practice

Successful Integrative Medicine Assessment and Treatment of Chronic Pain Associated With Breast Surgery: A Report of 3 Cases.

Myung Kyu Chung, Patrick J LaRiccia

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Article in Holistic nursing practice. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Myung Kyu ChungCooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, and Chung Institute of Integrative Medicine and Won Sook Chung Foundation, Moorestown, New Jersey (Dr Chung); and Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and Won Sook Chung Foundation, Moorestown, New Jersey (Dr LaRiccia).
Patrick J LaRiccia
Chungwoon University · KR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Presented is the first reported case series of chronic neck and back pain associated with breast scars from breast surgery and successfully treated with an integrative medicine assessment and treatment approach, which included the assessment technique of autonomic response testing and the scar therapy technique of neural therapy. Implications for nursing practice are discussed.

Indexed as

Kinesiology, AppliedAdultChronic PainFemaleHumansMastectomyMiddle AgedPostoperative PainRetrospective Studies

Identifiers

PMID27782920
PMCPMC5134821
OpenAlexW2541236693

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