Article
Acupressure alleviates pain and clinical symptoms in patients with sickle cell disease
2025-05-01
Abstract excerpt
Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is a genetic hematological disorder characterized by chronic pain, recurrent vaso-occlusive crises featuring extremely painful episodes, and other co-morbidities. Management of pain in SCD relies on persistent and/or high doses of opioids as the mainstay, which is known to be associated with significant risks of side effects, tolerance, opioid-induced hyperalgesia, and/or lower quality of...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 3cdcdcd1-1580-5020-bdd9-740f4b24c1ee
- DOI
- 10.1101/2025.04.29.25326671
