Breast Surgery
Acupuncture reduces nausea and vomiting, pain after major breast surgery
Published in Women's Health Weekly, October 14th, 2004
Patients who underwent the 5,000-year-old Chinese practice reported decreased postoperative pain and increased satisfaction with their postoperative recovery.
In conducting the trial, the researchers also demonstrated that the pressure point they stimulated possesses previously unknown pain-killing properties.
Results of the Duke study were published in the September 22, 2004, issue of Anesthesia and...
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