"Acupuncture Analgesia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Analgesia produced by the insertion of ACUPUNCTURE needles at certain ACUPUNCTURE POINTS on the body. This activates small myelinated nerve fibers in the muscle which transmit impulses to the spinal cord and then activate three centers - the spinal cord, midbrain and pituitary/hypothalamus - to produce analgesia.
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D015667
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.190.044.105 E03.091.048
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Baeumler PI, Fleckenstein J, Benedikt F, Bader J, Irnich D. Acupuncture-induced changes of pressure pain threshold are mediated by segmental inhibition--a randomized controlled trial. Pain. 2015 Nov; 156(11):2245-2255.