Longitudinal Utilization of Invasive Pain Treatment Procedures Among Veterans with Chronic Pain Following Use of Whole Health Services and Complementary and Integrative Health Ther... by Zeliadt SB, DeFaccio R, Carey EP, Etingen B, Rosser EW, Suri P, Chen JA, Bokhour BG, Coggeshall S

“…CIH therapies included chiropractic care, acupuncture, massage therapy, yoga, Tai Chi/Qigong, and meditation. Propensity score matching was used to estimate expected rates of invasive pain treatment procedures 0– 3, 4– 12, and 13– 18 months after initiating Whole Health or CIH-only compared to similar Veterans who had not engaged in either.Results: Overall, 14% of the population were female, 11% had received prior spine injections, 3.3% had received surgery, and 0.4% had an implantable spinal stimulator. …”
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