The use of acupuncture to control chronic pain in users with irradiated vertebral syndrome
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-6108.2021.1.39304Keywords:
acupuncture therapy, chronic pain, quality of lifeAbstract
Aims: acupuncture is increasingly a technique used in users with various pathologies, and especially those who are accompanied by chronic pain. This research aimed to analyze the effect of non-pharmacological acupuncture and electroacupuncture therapy for the control of chronic pain in users with medical diagnosis of irradiation vertebral syndrome.
Methods: a research was conducted with two evaluation moments: before and after non-pharmacological acupuncture and electroacupuncture therapy sessions. A questionnaire with variables of sociodemographic and clinical characterization, the Brief Pain Inventory and Short Form 6 Dimensions (SF-6D) was used.
Results: forty-three users participated in the study, and statistically significant differences were found from moment 1 to moment 2 of evaluation, either in the pain severity domain (p<0.01) or in the pain interference domain in daily functioning (p <0.01), as well as in the different dimensions of SF-6D, statistically significant differences were found.
Conclusions: non-pharmacological acupuncture and electroacupuncture therapy in users diagnosed with irradiation and chronic pain have contributed to decrease pain severity, pain interference in daily functioning and improvement of health-related quality of life.
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