title: Successful Integrative Medicine Assessment and Treatment of Chronic Pain Associated With Breast Surgery: A Report of 3 Cases.
abstract: Presented is the first reported case series of chronic neck and back pain associated with breast scars from breast surgery and successfully treated with an integrative medicine assessment and treatment approach, which included the assessment technique of autonomic response testing and the scar therapy technique of neural therapy. Implications for nursing practice are discussed.
authors: Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, and Chung Institute of Integrative Medicine and Won Sook Chung Foundation, Moorestown, New Jersey (Dr Chung); and Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and Won Sook Chung Foundation, Moorestown, New Jersey (Dr LaRiccia).
authors: Myung Kyu
authors: MK
authors: Chung
authors: Patrick J
authors: PJ
authors: LaRiccia
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D059350:Chronic Pain / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D018953:Kinesiology, Applied; D008408:Mastectomy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010149:Postoperative Pain / Q000628:therapy*; D012189:Retrospective Studies