Historical perspectives on using sham acupuncture in acupuncture clinical trials [PDF]
Integrative Medicine Research, 2022 Background: 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 ...
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Descriptions of sham acupuncture in randomised controlled trials: a critical review of the literature [PDF]
BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, 2023 Background Sham acupuncture is usually used to assess the specific effects of acupuncture. However, the reporting quality of sham acupuncture remains unclear despite its critical importance in understanding and analyzing the effects of acupuncture.
Yixuan Xie +8 more
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Plausible Mechanism of Sham Acupuncture Based on Biomarkers: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials [PDF]
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022 IntroductionSham acupuncture was developed to be used as an inert control intervention in clinical trials of acupuncture. However, controversies exist regarding the validity of sham acupuncture.
Tae-Hun Kim +4 more
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Placebo response varies between different types of sham acupuncture: A randomized double-blind trial in neck pain patients. [PDF]
Eur J Pain, 2022 In prospective experimental studies of neck pain patients, it is difficult to determine whether responses to sham acupuncture differ from responses to real acupuncture due to the heterogeneous methodologies in control/sham interventions.
Zeng D +9 more
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Comparison of Acupuncture and Sham Acupuncture in Migraine Treatment: An Overview of Systematic Reviews. [PDF]
Neurologist, 2022 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 ...
Li M, Wang W, Gao W, Yang D.
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Differential placebo effect of sham acupuncture for chronic pain: a network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials [PDF]
BMC Complementary Medicine and TherapiesBackground The clinical effects of acupuncture are often underestimated due to the placebo effect of sham acupuncture. While multiple sham acupuncture methods have been used in clinical practice, it is challenging to select the appropriate sham ...
Renhong Wan +11 more
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Different Outcomes According to Needling Point Location Used in Sham Acupuncture for Cancer-Related Pain: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis. [PDF]
Cancers (Basel), 2023 Simple Summary When sham acupuncture was set as a control in previous acupuncture clinical trials, the sham procedure was conducted either at the same points that were used for the verum acupuncture group or at nonindicated points.
Lee B +8 more
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JAMA Netw Open, 2023 This systematic review and network meta-analysis evaluates whether the location of needling point in sham-controlled trials of acupuncture for chronic nonspecific low back pain is associated with outcomes.
Lee B +8 more
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Acupuncture May Help to Prevent Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy: A Randomized, Sham-Controlled, Single-Blind Study [PDF]
The Oncologist, 2023 Objective This study investigated the efficacy of acupuncture in preventing chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) in patients with colorectal cancer (CRC).
Ming-Cheng Huang +9 more
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ACURATE: A guide for reporting sham controls in trials using acupuncture
Integrative Medicine Research, 2023 This paper presents the Acupuncture Controls gUideline for Reporting humAn Trials and Experiments (ACURATE) checklist, an extension of The Consolidated Standards for Reporting of Trials (CONSORT) and to be used along with STandards for Reporting ...
Ye-Seul Lee +4 more
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