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Developing and Validating a Sham Acupuncture Needle
Acupuncture in Medicine, 2009Objectives To develop a sham needle device and test its credibility as a control for acupuncture when used in a randomised controlled trial of myofascial trigger point needling in patients with whiplash associated pain.
Adrian White +4 more
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Establishment of appropriate sham acupuncture and successful patient blinding
Acupuncture in Medicine, 2020Recently, a paper by Xu et al. was published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), which found that the effect of acupuncture on prophylaxis of episodic migraine was superior to sham acupuncture and usual care. Notably, one of the strengths of this study
Hantong Hu +3 more
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Acupuncture in Medicine, 2020
Background Previous clinical trials have demonstrated that both acupuncture and sham acupuncture exert significant, non-specific effects on treatment outcomes when compared to no-treatment controls.
R. Ho +4 more
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Background Previous clinical trials have demonstrated that both acupuncture and sham acupuncture exert significant, non-specific effects on treatment outcomes when compared to no-treatment controls.
R. Ho +4 more
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Verum versus Sham Acupuncture for the Treatment of Migraine [PDF]
Acupuncture in Medicine, 2016 Dear Editor, We read with great interest the recently published article entitled “Verum versus sham manual acupuncture for migraine: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials” by Yang et al .1 The authors examined the efficacy of verum acupuncture compared with sham acupuncture for the treatment of migraine.
Jinhuan Yue +3 more
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A randomized controlled trial of real versus sham acupuncture for basal thumb joint arthritis
Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume), 2020We report a single-blinded randomized controlled trial comparing acupuncture to sham (non-penetrating) needling for relief of symptoms of basal thumb joint arthritis.
A. Barnard +4 more
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Acupuncture is superior to sham for painful conditions
Evidence Based Medicine, 2013Commentary on: Vickers AJ, Cronin AM, Maschino AC, et al. Acupuncture Trialists’ Collaboration. Acupuncture for chronic pain: individual patient data meta-analysis. Arch Intern Med 2012;172:1444–53.[OpenUrl][1][CrossRef][2][PubMed][3][Web of Science][4] Acupuncture is controversial.
Jens Foell, Adrian White
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JAMA Internal Medicine
Importance Sciatica is commonly caused by herniated lumbar disc and contributes to severe pain and prolonged disability. Although acupuncture is widely used by patients with chronic sciatica, the evidence of its efficacy is scarce.
Jian-Feng Tu +17 more
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Importance Sciatica is commonly caused by herniated lumbar disc and contributes to severe pain and prolonged disability. Although acupuncture is widely used by patients with chronic sciatica, the evidence of its efficacy is scarce.
Jian-Feng Tu +17 more
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A Randomized Clinical Trial of Acupuncture Compared with Sham Acupuncture in Fibromyalgia
Annals of Internal Medicine, 2005Fibromyalgia is a common chronic pain condition for which patients frequently use acupuncture.To determine whether acupuncture relieves pain in fibromyalgia.Randomized, sham-controlled trial in which participants, data collection staff, and data analysts were blinded to treatment group.Private acupuncture offices in the greater Seattle, Washington ...
Wayne R. Smith +5 more
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Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.), 2019
OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy and safety of acupuncture for discogenic sciatica. DESIGN Single-center, parallel, randomized controlled sham acupuncture trial.
Ziling Huang +4 more
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OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy and safety of acupuncture for discogenic sciatica. DESIGN Single-center, parallel, randomized controlled sham acupuncture trial.
Ziling Huang +4 more
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Sham Acupuncture Devices – Practical Advice for Researchers
Acupuncture in Medicine, 2007Several validated sham acupuncture devices have recently become available. While some debate exists on whether such needles are the best placebo control for an RCT of acupuncture, practical advice based on research experience is missing from the literature.
Claire A McManus +7 more
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