Veteran patients and health care providers felt complementary and integrative medicine was a safe addition to mainstream treatment options for headache management, researchers reported in BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies.
“We found that veterans with chronic headache were very interested in combining alternatives, such as acupuncture, massage, yoga or tai chi, with mainstream medicine and that they were encouraged by the fact that alternatives exist to simply taking additional pharmaceuticals for pain,” senior study author Teresa Damush, PhD, a research career scientist