Assessing the Effectiveness of BFA as a Non-pharmacologic Pain Management Intervention: A Randomised Sham Controlled Study

Overview

This is a randomized sham controlled study that will include patients hospitalized in the internal medicine department and the orthopedics department at Bnei Zion Hospital presenting with pain from various sources with an NRS level equal to or above 4.

All patients will complete pain assessment according NSR and ESAS after treatment ( SHAM or BFA) one hour before and every 24 hours until discharge. If there was no sufficient improvement in pain within 24 hours (decrease of 1.5 points or more in NRS) - additional acupuncture will be performed in the contralateral ear and repeated assessments as above.

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