The Anti-Inflammatory Actions of Auricular Point Acupressure for Chronic Low Back Pain.

Evid Based Complement Alternat Med · 2015 · PMC4480805 · PMID 26170869

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Changes in other biomarker levels did not reach statistical significance between the two groups.

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In the sham APA group, proinflammatory cytokines also displayed a decreasing trend in mean changes yet with smaller magnitudes compared to the real APA group (i.e., −0.39 in IL-1 β , −0.39 in IL-2, −1.28 in IL-6, and −5.61 in TNF- α ).

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