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Published in: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 1/2012

Open Access 01-06-2012 | Poster presentation

P02.58. The feasibility of integrating ear acupuncture into the aeromedical evacuation system from Ramstein Air Base (Germany) to Andrews Air Force Base (US)

Authors: J Walter, A York, S Thati, R Niemtzow, S Burns

Published in: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies | Special Issue 1/2012

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Recently, military leaders have endorsed the need for holistic, non-pharmacologically based approaches to pain. Acupuncture has been shown to be an effective adjunctive therapy for specific pain conditions; however, acupuncture has occupied only a marginal role in pain management. We investigated what would happen if a simple ear acupuncture procedure was introduced into the medical care delivered in the aeromedical evacuation system to wounded warfighters being evacuated from Germany to the US. …
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Title
P02.58. The feasibility of integrating ear acupuncture into the aeromedical evacuation system from Ramstein Air Base (Germany) to Andrews Air Force Base (US)
Authors
J Walter
A York
S Thati
R Niemtzow
S Burns
Publication date
01-06-2012
Publisher
BioMed Central
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6882-12-S1-P114

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