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Children's Pain Eased With Acupuncture

A National Institutes of Health consensus panel recently concluded that acupuncture was effective in relieving or decreasing pain resulting from a variety of conditions, including headache, tennis elbow and carpal tunnel syndrome. While the NIH panel focused primarily on pain suffered by adults, a new report presented at a meeting of the World Congress of Anesthesiologists has found that acupuncture can also be used successfully to manage various types of pain in children.

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