Highlights
- •Acupuncture as a complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) modality appears to be a helpful integrative therapy for MS.
- •Traditional Chinese acupuncture and scalp acupuncture appear to help improve the symptoms of MS.
- •Fatigue, neural functional deficits, pain, gait impairments, and bladder dysfunction can be improved by acupuncture.
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