New approach to preventing long acupuncture needles from buckling and contamination during insertion

Acupunct Med. 2014 Dec;32(6):520-2. doi: 10.1136/acupmed-2014-010671. Epub 2014 Oct 14.

Authors

Claire Shuiqing Zhang¹, Anthony Lin Zhang¹, Charlie Changli Xue¹, Yi Min Xie²

Affiliations

¹ Traditional and Complementary Medicine Program, Health Innovations Research Institute, WHO Collaborating Centre for Traditional Medicine; School of Health Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
² Centre for Innovative Structures and Materials, School of Civil, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

PMID: 25315115
DOI: 10.1136/acupmed-2014-010671

No abstract available

Keywords: ACUPUNCTURE.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Acupuncture Therapy*
Equipment Contamination / prevention & control*
Equipment Failure*
Humans
Needles*