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Acupuncture

Acupuncture is a part of Traditional Chinese Medicine used for thousands of years as a remedy for many different conditions, including pain relief.  It is classified as energy therapy and refers to several procedures that stimulate (manually or electrically) specific points on the body, but generally used to designate the procedure where thin metal needles are inserted through the skin.  When performed by an experienced qualified practitioner there is little risk of complications, but potential ones do include perforation, broken needles, infection, and bleeding.

An Introduction to Acupuncture
http://nccam.nih.gov/health/acupuncture/

Clinical Research on Acupuncture: Part 1. What Have Reviews of the Efficacy and Safety of Acupuncture Told Us So Far?
http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/1075553041323894

Complementary Approaches: Acupuncture http://www.healingchronicpain.org/content/introduction/comp_acup.asp

Acupuncture Analgesia: I. The Scientific Basis
http://www.anesthesia-analgesia.org/cgi/content/abstract/106/2/602

Acupuncture and clinical hypnosis for facial and head and neck pain: a single crossover comparison.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11591081

How is Trigeminal Neuralgia Treated?
http://www.medicinenet.com/trigeminal_neuralgia/page2.htm

A review of complementary and alternative medicine use for treating chronic facial pain
http://jada.ada.org/cgi/content/abstract/133/9/1189

Organizations

American Academy of Medical Acupuncture
http://www.medicalacupuncture.org

American Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
http://www.aaaomonline.org/

Council of Colleges of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
http://www.ccaom.org/

National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
http://www.nccaom.org/