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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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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 ...
Myeong Soo Lee +2 more
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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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Harmonic effects of sham acupuncture at Tsu San Li (St-36) in the radial pulse wave [PDF]
Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine, 2023 Background and aim: Acupuncture has been criticized as a theatrical placebo for the sham effect. Unfortunately, sham tests used in control groups in acupuncture studies have always ignored the underlying biophysical factors, including resonance involved ...
Kuang-Chieh Hsueh +5 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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Review of controlled clinical trials on acupuncture versus sham acupuncture in Germany [PDF]
Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 2013 To examine German controlled clinical trials on the therapeutic effects of acupuncture vs sham acupuncture, and to find whether there are problems with the conclusion that sham acupuncture has no significant deviation from acupuncture.We focused on literature from the last ten years (2002-2011) included in PubMed about controlled clinical trials on ...
He, Wei +7 more
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Discrimination of Real and Sham Acupuncture Needles Using the Park Sham Device: A Preliminary Study [PDF]
Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 2009 Tan C-W, Christie L, St-Georges V, Telford N. Discrimination of real and sham acupuncture needles using the Park sham device: a preliminary study.To evaluate the blinding effectiveness of the Park sham acupuncture device using participants' ability to discriminate between the real and sham acupuncture needles.The design was a yes-no experiment ...
Tan, Chee Wee +3 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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