Acupuncture for Chronic Low Back Pain: Recommendations to Medicare/Medicaid from the Society for Acupuncture Research.


Author: Mao JJ1, Davis RT2, Coeytaux R3, Hullender-Rubin L4, Kong JT5, MacPherson H6, Napadow V7, Schnyer R8, Wayne P9, Witt C10, Harris R11

Affiliation: <sup>1</sup>1 Bendheim Integrative Medicine Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY.

<sup>2</sup>2 Acupuncture Vermont, Burlington, VT.

<sup>3</sup>3 Community and Family Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC.

<sup>4</sup>4 Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.

<sup>5</sup>5 Department of Anesthesiology Pain and Perioperative Medicine, Stanford University Hospital and Clinics, Standford, CA.

<sup>6</sup>6 Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, United Kingdom.

<sup>7</sup>7 Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.

<sup>8</sup>8 School of Nursing, University of Texas, Austin, TX.

<sup>9</sup>9 Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

<sup>10</sup>10 Institute for Complementary and Integrative Medicine, University Hospital Zurich and University Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

<sup>11</sup>11 Departments of Anesthesiology and Internal Medicine Division of Rheumatology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Conference/Journal: J Altern Complement Med.
Date published: 2019 Mar 30
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  Special Notes: doi: 10.1089/acm.2019.29067.jjm. [Epub ahead of print]   ,  Word Count: 4  
    PMID: 30925124  DOI: 10.1089/acm.2019.29067.jjm