Acupuncture: A Comparison Study of Sham Acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Acupuncture and Current Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain in Adults

Authors

Kayla Olson, University of North Dakota

Files

Document Type

Poster

Description

• Chronic pain is one of the most difficult conditions to treat.

---Close monitoring of controlled medications

---Unnecessary, expensive surgeries

• Alternatives to medication is increasingly necessary.

• Integrative medicine incorporates traditional western medicine with unconventional therapies, such as acupuncture.

---Evaluate the treatments’ efficacy for chronic neck and back pain by evaluating meta-analysis studies and randomized controlled trials.

• Physiology is a large component of understanding how and if the acupuncture works.

---Non-invasive functional magnetic resonance imaging

---Neurotransmitters and their response to acupuncture

• Acupuncture therapy for improvement of chronic musculoskeletal pain

Department

Physician Assistant Studies

Degree Name

Master of Physician Assistant Studies (MPAS)

First Advisor

Heidi Olson-Fitzgerald

Publication Date

2015

Keywords

Acupuncture Therapy; Chronic Disease; Musculoskeletal Pain -- therapy; Comparative Study

Disciplines

Alternative and Complementary Medicine | Musculoskeletal Diseases

Recommended Citation

Olson, Kayla, "Acupuncture: A Comparison Study of Sham Acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Acupuncture and Current Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain in Adults" (2015). Physician Assistant Scholarly Project Posters. 103.
https://commons.und.edu/pas-grad-posters/103