Pain modulation by meditation and electroacupuncture in experimental submaximum effort tourniquet technique (SETT).
Explore (New York, N.Y.) 2011 Kyung-Eun Choi, Thomas Rampp, Felix J Saha et al.
Although acupuncture and meditation are widely utilized in the clinical treatment of pain, trials to evaluate their efficacy and modes of action under experimental conditions have yielded equivocal results. This feasibility study investigated whether electroacupuncture (EA) and meditation effectively relieve pain within a well-established ischemic pain paradigm (submaximum effort tourniquet...