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Historical perspectives on using sham acupuncture in acupuncture clinical trials [PDF]
Integrative Medicine Research, 2022 Trials of acupuncture in the West began before textbooks about acupuncture were generally available. This placed trials at risk of possible faulty assumptions about the practice of acupuncture and adoption of problematic research assumptions and methods.
Stephen Birch +3 more
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Sham Acupuncture Is Not Just a Placebo
Journal of Acupuncture and Meridian Studies, 2022 Sham acupuncture should have two distinct features: first, it must be morphologically similar to verum acupuncture for blinding purposes, and second, it must not exert physiologically expected effects of verum acupuncture. While several types of sham acupuncture are currently used, there are on-going debates on which sham acupuncture can meet the ...
Tae-Hun Kim +2 more
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Is Sham Laser a Valid Control for Acupuncture Trials? [PDF]
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2011 Methodological problems of acupuncture trials focus on adequate placebo controls. In this trial we evaluated the use of sham laser acupuncture as a control procedure. Thirty‐four healthy volunteers received verum laser (invisible infrared laser emission and red light, 45 s and 1 J per point) and sham laser (red light) treatment at three acupuncture ...
Martin Offenbächer +3 more
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Acupuncture versus sham acupuncture for simple obesity: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2020 AbstractObesity is a growing chronic health problem worldwide. Studies about acupuncture for obesity treatment are many. But there are some doubts about the effectiveness of acupuncture versus sham acupuncture in treating obesity due to its lack of medical evidence.
Xiao-Chao Luo +8 more
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Comparison of Acupuncture and Sham Acupuncture in Migraine Treatment [PDF]
The Neurologist, 2021 Background: Acupuncture is widely used for treating migraine; however, evidence of its efficacy when compared with sham acupuncture is equivocal. This study aimed to compare the evaluate efficacy of acupuncture versus sham acupuncture in migraine treatment.
Dongdong Yang +3 more
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Placebo Analgesia, Acupuncture and Sham Surgery [PDF]
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2011 Invasive procedures, such as surgery and acupuncture, are likely better than the others in terms of eliciting placebo analgesia. Understanding how invasive procedures can elicit enhanced placebo responses may provide new insights into mechanisms underlying placebo analgesia.
Tao Liu, Cui-ping Yu
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Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2013 See related research article by Xu and colleagues on page [473][1] and at [www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.121108][2] “For patients with Bell palsy treated with prednisone, the addition of strong-stimulation acupuncture, which can elicit a higher intensity of de qi , significantly ...
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A Case Report on the Effect of Sham Acupuncture
Journal of Acupuncture and Meridian Studies, 2016 When nausea, an extremely unpleasant symptom, is experienced during dental treatment, it generates disorders and obstacles for both the patient and the professional, compromising the good quality of dental care. Clinical studies have confirmed the antiemetic action of acupuncture and shown its use for the treatment of nausea and vomiting.
Maria da Luz Rosário de Sousa +2 more
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Acupuncture analgesia: Is it verum or sham? [PDF]
OA Anaesthetics, 2013 Introduction There is increasing evidence that acupuncture is an effective therapeutic technique for some patients with painful conditions; but, there is ongoing controversy as to whether this effect is primarily due to mechanical or direct effects of acupuncture (verum) or non-specific factors, including placebo (sham). This paper explores some of the
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Acupuncture versus Sham Acupuncture for Chronic Prostatitis/Chronic Pelvic Pain [PDF]
The American Journal of Medicine, 2008 Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) afflicts 2%-10% of adult men. Available therapies offer little or no proven benefit. Because acupuncture represents an attractive "natural" therapy, we compared the efficacy of acupuncture to sham acupuncture for CP/CPPS.Participants met US National Institutes of Health (NIH) consensus criteria
Lee, S +11 more
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