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A systematic review of sham acupuncture validation studies. [PDF]
BMC Complement Med TherAbstract Background Acupuncture is widely used worldwide; however, studies on its effectiveness have been impeded by limitations regarding the design of appropriate control groups. In clinical research, noninvasive sham acupuncture techniques can only be applied through validation studies.
Lim SM, Go E.
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Acupuncture versus Sham Acupuncture for Chronic Prostatitis/Chronic Pelvic Pain [PDF]
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
Phaik Yeong Cheah +2 more
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Integrative Medicine ResearchBackground: Because Cochrane reviews represent a quality standard for systematic reviews, we sought to clarify to what extent Cochrane reviews of acupuncture characterize the potential and problematic specific effects of sham acupuncture.
Lisa Susan Wieland, Arya Nielsen
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Acupuncture vs sham acupuncture for simple obesity: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]
Medicine (Baltimore), 2019 Abstract Background: Obesity 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 vs sham acupuncture in treating obesity due to its lack of an evidence-based medical proof.
Zhong YM +7 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, 2023 Myeong Soo Lee +2 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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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.
Liu, Tao, Yu, Cui-ping
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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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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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Frontiers in Medicine, 2023 ObjectivesAlthough many trials have assessed the effect of acupuncture on knee osteoarthritis (KOA), its efficacy remains controversial. Sham acupuncture techniques are regarded as representative control interventions in acupuncture trials and sometimes ...
Boram Lee +8 more
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