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Acupuncture and other alternative therapies in rheumatoid arthritis.

Hardware B, Lacey A.

Barnsley District General Hospital NHS Trust, Barnsley.

Increasing use of alternative therapies is being reported in many areas of health care, particularly in those specialties in which conventional medicine can offer no complete cures. This article examines what is known about the current use of alternative therapies, and acupuncture in particular, by patients with rheumatoid arthritis.