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The new review suggests, yoga, acupuncture, and other complementary health approaches are safe and effective for management of some chronic pain conditions.
Lead author Richard L. Nahin, Ph.D., of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and colleagues publish their findings in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
In any given year, around 100 million adults in the United States experience chronic pain - pain that persists for at least 12 weeks - of whom around 40 million have severe chronic pain.