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While I am grateful for this thoughtful and comprehensive review, I worry that the wording of the abstract text, "traditional Chinese medicine including acupuncture, massage, yoga, biofeedback, and meditation" might be misleading or confusing. My training here in the U.S. has always included the following components under the umbrella of traditional Chinese medicine: acupuncture, moxabustion, Chinese herbal medicine, Chinese therapeutic massage (Tui Na), dietary therapy (emphasizing the particular "energetic" properties of specific foods) and energy conscious movement practices such as Tai Chi and Qi Gong. Biofeedback, yoga, most types of massage and even meditation would not then belong under the category of TCM.
Intercessory prayer
In this Clinical Review, the Authors list various Hinduistic (meditation, yoga) and Buddhistic (energy meridian manipulation, Tai Chi) practices used against pain, and headache in particular.
I was surprised that their list of effective therapeutic interventions did not include altruistic prayer, practiced in all Monotheistic Abrahamic religions for Millennia.
Systematic reviews and randomized trials, Level I scientific evidence, proved prayer effective against pain. [1][2][3][4][5][6]
References
[1] http://annals.org/aim/article/713514/efficacy-distant-healing-systematic...
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10836918
[3] http://www.bmj.com/content/323/7327/1450
[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27452045
[5] http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-31802017005...
[6] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28338863
Competing interests: No competing interests