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Randomized Controlled TrialChronic Pain

Bridging gaps in endometriosis care: a scoping review of complementary, alternative and/or integrative medicine for pain and quality of life.

Acupuncture, Chinese medicine, and nutritional supplements demonstrated the strongest evidence for significant pain reli…

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Research StudyChronic Pain

The Mast Cell-PAR2-TRP Axis: A Convergent Mechanism for Visceral Hypersensitivity Independent of Divergent Motility in IBS.

The mast cell-PAR2-TRP axis represents a common mechanistic pathway causing visceral hypersensitivity across all IBS sub…

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Research StudyChronic Pain

Emerging Nonopioid Analgesic Strategies in Total Joint Arthroplasty: Mechanisms, Evidence, and Practical Implementation.

Multimodal nonopioid regimens incorporating both pharmacologic agents and nonpharmacologic modalities such as acupunctur…

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Research StudyChronic Pain

Complementary and alternative therapies in the treatment of primary dysmenorrhea.

Complementary and alternative medicine therapies including acupuncture offer effective treatment options for primary dys…

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SLL-023ACP, a KOR/MOR dual agonist, produces potent antinociception with fewer side effects.

The dual KOR/MOR agonist SLL-023ACP demonstrated greater analgesic potency than morphine while producing no addiction-li…

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Brain sensory network activity underlies reduced nociceptive initiated and nociplastic pain via acupuncture in fibromyalgia.

Electroacupuncture reduced fibromyalgia pain through increased somatosensory cortex activation and sensory-insula connec…

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Randomized Controlled TrialChronic Pain

Optimizing Postoperative Analgesia After Perianal Abscess Surgery Using Ultrasound-Guided Pudendal Nerve Block Combined with Wrist-Ankle Acupuncture: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Combined ultrasound-guided pudendal nerve block and wrist-ankle acupuncture reduced postoperative pain scores significan…

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Case StudyChronic Pain

Structure-based medical acupuncture for trigeminal neuralgia secondary to lateral medullary syndrome: a case report.

Structure-based medical acupuncture reduced trigeminal neuralgia pain from 8/10 to 2/10 over two weeks in a patient with…

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Research StudyChronic Pain

[Expert consensus on integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine treatment of postherpetic neuralgia (2026 edition)].

Expert consensus recommends early initiation of combined traditional Chinese and Western medicine treatment for postherp…

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Randomized Controlled TrialChronic Pain

Factors associated with return to meaningful activities following physiotherapy for pelvic girdle pain during pregnancy: 3-year follow-up of a randomised controlled trial.

The number of positive pelvic provocation tests at 4 months postpartum significantly predicted persistent pelvic girdle …

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Research StudyChronic Pain

Brain Sensory Network Activity Underlies Reduced Nociceptive-Initiated and Nociplastic Pain via Acupuncture in Fibromyalgia.

Electroacupuncture reduced fibromyalgia pain through increased somatosensory cortex activation and enhanced S1-insula co…

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Research StudyChronic Pain

Cervical Tenderness (Parametropathy) is a Diagnostic Tool for the Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome.

Cervical motion tenderness testing demonstrated 96.7% sensitivity and 92.8% specificity for diagnosing chronic pelvic pa…

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