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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Are Sham Acupuncture Interventions More Effective than (Other) Placebos? A Re-Analysis of Data from the Cochrane Review on Placebo Effects [PDF]
, 2010 Background and Objective: A recent Cochrane review on placebo interventions for all kinds of conditions found that `physical placebos' (which included sham acupuncture) were associated with larger effects over no-treatment control groups than ...
Linde, Klaus +7 more
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Acupuncture in Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis (ACUSAR) - Design and Protocol of a Randomised Controlled Multi-Centre Trial [PDF]
, 2010 Background: We report on the study design and protocol of a randomised controlled trial (Acupuncture in Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis, ACUSAR) that investigates the efficacy of acupuncture in the treatment of seasonal allergic rhinitis (SAR).
Witt, Claudia M. +25 more
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ASPIRE guidelines and their enlightenment on application of sham acupuncture in clinical researches
针刺研究, 2023 Reasonable and standard application of sham acupuncture control is the key to determine the quality of acupuncture clinical trials, and is also a difficult problem faced by acupuncture clinical research.
LIU Xiao-yu +10 more
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Acupuncture Point Localization Varies Among Acupuncturists [PDF]
, 2012 Background: Studies assessing the point-specific effect of acupuncture or the characteristics of acupuncture points (APs) tend to yield inconclusive results.
Kramer, Sybille +3 more
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The problem of metal needles in acupuncture-fMRI studies [PDF]
, 2011 Acupuncture is a therapy based on sensory stimulation of the human body by means of metal needles. The exact underlying mechanisms of acupuncture have not been clarified so far. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has become an important tool
Beißner, Florian +5 more
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Integrative Cancer Therapies, 2023 Objective Since there is a lack of effective pharmacological therapies for chemotherapy-induced neuropathy and many patients ask for integrative cancer therapies such as acupuncture, the objective of this pilot study was to describe patients’ experiences,
Kristina Lagerstedt MSc +1 more
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Investigation of acupuncture sensation patterns under sensory deprivation using a geographic information system [PDF]
, 2012 The study of acupuncture-related sensations, like deqi and propagated sensations along channels (PSCs), has a long tradition in acupuncture basic research. The phenomenon itself, however, remains poorly understood. To study the connection between PSC and
Beißner, Florian, Marzolff, Irene
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Clinical Efficacy and Safety of Acupuncture Rehabilitation for Post-stroke Depression: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis [PDF]
BIO Web of Conferences, 2023 Objective: The most important and common psychiatric disorders after stroke include post-stroke depression, which can lead to a variety of negative health outcomes.
Xie Wenzhan +3 more
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