Author/Authors :
Bahrami ، Hamid Reza نويسنده , , Noras، Mohammadreza نويسنده Phd student, Students Research Committee, Faculty of Traditional Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran. , , Saeidi، Masumeh نويسنده Students Research Committee, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran Saeidi, Masumeh
Abstract :
Acupuncture is increasingly used in children; however, the safety of pediatric acupuncture has yet to be reported from systematic review. Acupuncture has become a dominant complementary and alternative modality in clinical practice today but its associated risk has been questioned. The National Institutes of Health Consensus Statement states “one of the advantages of acupuncture is that the incidence of adverse effects is substantially lower than that of many drugs or other accepted procedures for the same conditions.
