Needle contact test in auricular acupuncture for shoulder pain and where effective auricular acupoints identified are positioned on the map: A controlled study

• Main Authors: Antonello Lovato (Author), Marco Postiglione (Author), Giuseppe Gagliardi (Author), Moreno Parmagnani (Author), Mario Biral (Author), Francesco Ceccherelli (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: PAGEPress Publications, 2023-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Active Points Test on auricle was renamed Needle Contact Test (or NCT), considered an extremely effective method to select most efficient auricle acupoint for Auricular Acupuncture (or AA) therapy. Our aims were to evaluate NCT efficiency as viable diagnostic option to identify the most appropriate...