Business Wire - July 8, 2004
Kenneth Phillips, Ph.D. and colleagues at the Mind-Body Research Group, University of South Carolina, and The Acupuncture Clinic in Columbia, SC, demonstrated a significant reduction in current pain, pain during the last 24 hours, and total pain among HIV-infected individuals who received acupuncture treatments two evenings per week at a gathering of their HIV support group. Patients receiving acupuncture also reported less pins and needles, numbness in the hands and feet, and other symptoms of peripheral neuropathy.
"This is important work and offers a real solution to a real problem that causes immense suffering. It is time to put these findings into practice and to use them to bring relief to many more patients worldwide," says Journal Editor-in-Chief Kim A. Jobst, M.A., D.M., Visiting Professor in Healthcare and Integrated Medicine, Oxford Brookes University.
With the advent of HAART, the life expectancy of individuals with HIV infection is increasing, as is the likelihood that they will experience HIV-associated pain, central nervous system infections, and neurologic disease.
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