Electroacupuncture efficacy in diabetic polyneuropathy: Study protocol for a double-blinded randomized controlled multicenter clinical trial

• Main Authors: María Fernanda Pérez Hernández (Author), Alejandra Calderón Vallejo (Author), Sergio de Jesús Aguilar Castillo (Author), Daniel Cuauhtémoc Gómez Jiménez (Author), Eduardo Rodríguez Guerrero (Author), Fátima Aguilar Morales (Author), Macedonia Guadalupe Moreno Tovar (Author), Miguel Alfredo Zurita Muñóz (Author), Antonio Eduardo Bautista Cortéz (Author), Claudia Camelia Calzada Mendoza (Author), Mónica Ascención De Nova Ocampo (Author), Juan Manuel Ordóñez Rodríguez (Author), Mónica Luz Gómez Esquivel (Author), Alberto García Méndez (Author), Octavio Flores Gil (Author), Víctor Manuel Macías Zaragoza (Author), Gabriela Yanet Cortés Moreno (Author), Citlaltepetl Salinas Lara (Author), Germán Velázquez García (Author), Héctor Iván Saldivar Cerón (Author), Lucia Monserrat Pérez Navarro (Author), Laura Ávila Jiménez (Author), Jaime Héctor Gómez Zamudio (Author), Margarita Díaz Flores (Author), Miguel Cruz López (Author), María Esther Ocharan Hernández (Author), José de Jesús Peralta Romero (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) is the most common complication of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM); its diagnosis and treatment are based on symptomatic improvement. However, as pharmacological therapy causes multiple adverse effects, the implementation of acupunctural techn...