There was low- quality evidence that acupuncture  improves pain compared to no treatment or st and ard treatment , but good evidence that it is no better than sham acupuncture .
The evidence for homoeopathy , spinal manipulation and herbal medicine was limited .
No firm conclusions were drawn for efficacy of either spinal manipulation or homoeopathy for FM .
Background Fibromyalgia ( FM ) is a chronic , debilitating pain disorder .
Dissatisfaction with conventional medicine can lead people with FM to turn to complementary and alternative medicine ( CAM ) .
Two previous overviews of systematic review s of CAM for FM have been published , but they did not assessed for risk of bias in the review process .
Effect of homeopathic treatment on fibrositis (primary fibromyalgia)
mens . Several treatments were required for each tumour , and injecting alcohol was often associated with considerable pain , whereas our patients did not report pain . These reports did not mention changes seen on ultrasound scans during or immediately after injection , which we found useful in laser treatment . The most important advantage of the laser is its precision . It is unlikely that it will ever be possible to predict the extent of necrosis around a site at which absolute alcohol has been injected with an accuracy comparable to that already possible with the laser technique . In conclusion , interstitial laser hyperthermia is feasible and seems to be safe . A multiple fibre system makes it feasible to treat tumours of clinical ly relevant size in the centre of solid organs . The real challenge for the future will be to develop diagnostic techniques that disclose exactly how far individual tumours extend in a wider range of organs ( unlike the well defined tumours treated in this pilot study ) and to establish the conditions of laser treatment that give complete tumour ablation with safe healing . This combination of technologies may be valuable for treating otherwise untreatable tumours in a range of solid organs and for the primary treatment of small neoplasms such as tumours of the prostate and adrenal gl and
There was low- quality evidence that acupuncture  improves pain compared to no treatment or st and ard treatment , but good evidence that it is no better than sham acupuncture .
The evidence for homoeopathy , spinal manipulation and herbal medicine was limited .
No firm conclusions were drawn for efficacy of either spinal manipulation or homoeopathy for FM .
Background Fibromyalgia ( FM ) is a chronic , debilitating pain disorder .
Dissatisfaction with conventional medicine can lead people with FM to turn to complementary and alternative medicine ( CAM ) .
Two previous overviews of systematic review s of CAM for FM have been published , but they did not assessed for risk of bias in the review process .