Does Acupuncture Hurt? A Retrospective Study on Pain and Satisfaction during Pediatric Acupuncture.

Jeffrey I Gold, Monika Kobylecka, Nhat H Ngo, Christopher T Lin, Caitlyn N Hurray

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Article in Children (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Pediatric Acupuncture Safety: A Scoping Review.Global advances in integrative medicine and health
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Jeffrey I GoldDepartments of Anesthesiology, Pediatrics, and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4493-1299

Monika KobyleckaDepartment of Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine, The Saban Research Institute at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA.

Nhat H NgoDepartment of Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine, The Saban Research Institute at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA.ORCID 0009-0000-7465-4531

Christopher T LinDepartment of Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine, The Saban Research Institute at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA.

Caitlyn N HurrayDepartment of Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine, The Saban Research Institute at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA.

Children's Hospital of Los Angeles · USUniversity of Southern California · US

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Abstract

Previous studies have shown the benefit and safety of pediatric acupuncture, but it is often rejected by patients and their caregivers due to the perception of needling pain associated with acupuncture. A retrospective cohort study of 230 unique patients (1380 sessions) aged 8 to 21 underwent Kiiko Matsumoto Style acupuncture in an outpatient pain clinic. Patients completed a post-acupuncture survey, including the Faces Pain Scale-Revised and Likert-like scales about overall satisfaction, relaxation, and anxiolysis. Univariate analyses were conducted on all outcomes of interest. The mean needling pain score was 1.3 out of 10 with 57.7% of patients reporting no needling pain during their first acupuncture session. The mean score for overall satisfaction was 8.4 out of 10, relaxation was 8.2 out of 10, and anxiety reduction was 7.7 out of 10. The overall satisfaction, relaxation, and anxiolytic effect of acupuncture was increased in patients with more sessions (

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acupunctureanxiolysischronic painintegrative medicineKiiko Matsumoto Style (KMS)needling painpatient satisfactionpediatric pain

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PMID38002865

DOI10.3390/children10111774

PMCPMC10669982

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