San Diego—Clinicians looking to reduce their patients’ opioid consumption after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) may find an answer in acupuncture, according to a new study.
Researchers at New York City’s Hospital for Special Surgery (Hss) and Weill Cornell Medicine found that integrating intraoperative electroauricular acupuncture into an existing multimodal analgesia regimen decreased postoperative opioid use in these patients, with no adverse effects.
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