Review Article
Systematic Review: Acupuncture in Chronic Pain, Low Back Pain and Migraine
Dalamagka M* | |
Department of Anaesthesiology, General Hospital of Edessa, Edessa, Greece | |
Corresponding Author : | Maria Dalamagka Anaesthesiology Department General Hospital of Edessa Edessa 58200, Greece Tel: 30 2381 350100 E-mail: mary.dalamaga@gmail.com |
Received July 14, 2015; Accepted August 20, 2015; Published August 24, 2015 | |
Citation:Dalamagka M (2015) Systematic Review: Acupuncture in Chronic Pain, Low Back Pain and Migraine. J Pain Relief 4:195. doi:10.4172/21670846.1000195 | |
Copyright: ©2015 Dalamagka M. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | |
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Abstract
Acupuncture is widely used for chronic pain. The aim of the study was to assess the effectiveness of acupuncture as a treatment of chronic pain, within the context of the methodological quality of the studies. Complementary medicine databases, bibliographies and articles were searched.