Fig 1.
Schedule of enrollment, intervention, and assessment.
Schedule of enrolment, intervention, and assessment. VATS: video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery, EA: electroacupuncture, SA: sham electroacupuncture, NRS: numerical rating scale, CPSP: chronic post-surgical pain, EQ-5D-5L: five-level EuroQol five-dimensional questionnaire.
Fig 2.
VATS: video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery, NSCLC: non-small cell lung cancer, EA: electroacupuncture, SA: sham electroacupuncture.
Fig 3.
VATS: video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery, NSCLC: non-small cell lung cancer, PACU: post-anesthesia care unit, EA: electroacupuncture, SA: sham electroacupuncture.
Table 1.
Location of acupoints for EA group.
Fig 4.
Locations of acupoints and non-acupoints.
NA: non-acupoints. Reprinted from [3Dbody application] under a CC BY license, with permission from [3Dbody (Shanghai) Digital Technology Co., Ltd.], original copyright [2024].
Table 2.
Location of non-acupoints for SA group.