Pain Med. 2018 Sep 1;19(9):1862-1871. doi: 10.1093/pm/pnx322
Randomized Controlled Trial of Acupuncture for Women with Fibromyalgia: Group Acupuncture with Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis-Based Point Selection.
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Although the number of patients included in this study is not very big, it uses not some specific acupoints for all patients but chooses acupoints according to each patient's TCM diagnosis. I would highly recommend this kind of treatment since no two patients are the same in the eyes of TCM doctors.
For FM treatment, the combination of herbal medicine and acupuncture is usually more effective.
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