Acupuncture for shoulder pain - Acupuncture Research

Acupuncture for shoulder pain
Date of Most Recent Substantive Amendment: 23 February 2005
S Green, R Buchbinder, S Hetrick
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2007 Issue 4

Abstract

Background
There are many commonly employed forms of treatment for shoulder disorders. This review of acupuncture is one in a series of reviews of varying interventions for shoulder disorders including adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder), rotator cuff disease and osteoarthritis. Acupuncture to treat musculoskeletal pain is being used increasingly to confer an analgesic effect and to date its use in shoulder disorder has not been evaluated in a systematic review.

Objectives
To determine the efficacy and safety of acupuncture in the treatment of adults with shoulder pain.

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