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Acupuncture in TKA? New study from HSS. Outcome? “Remarkable!”

Would you try to perform a total knee implant using acupuncture as your pain management tool? One of this country’s leading large joint surgeons and an anesthesiologist at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in New York did just that, using a form of acupuncture that involves electricity—electro-auricular acupuncture—both intra and postoperatively in a total knee arthroplasty (TKA) case.

Source: Orthopedics This Week

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