Adding Acupuncture to Touch/Relaxation for Pain in Wartime: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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Eran Ben‐Arye · Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Jan Vagedes · Academic Research in Complementary and Integrative Medicine

Sameer Kassem · Carmel Medical Center

Noah Samuels · Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Ofer Lavie · Carmel Medical Center

Vika Zaritsky · Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Orit Gressel

Abstract

IO treatments led to reduced pain among patients with cancer living in a war zone, with no additive effect of acupuncture. HRV changes suggest enhanced parasympathetic activity, with acupuncture-treated patients showing additional frequency-domain changes attributed to decreased sympathetic tone.

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Acupuncture Treatment Research Studies Pain Management and Placebo Effect Music Therapy and Health

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Published in: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volume 71, Issue 3, pp. e387-e395

DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2025.12.001

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Adding Acupuncture to Touch/Relaxation for Pain in Wartime: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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