Acupuncture versus Metoprolol in Migraine Prophylaxis

Hesse, Josefine; Møgelvang, B; Simonsen, Henrik Toft

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“…The use of a mock transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulator, which does not use a needle, is inadequate because it fails to appropriately simulate acupuncture treatment. 17 The few studies [18][19][20][21][22][23] that have used the noninsertion placebo control procedure fail to evaluate the credibility of the procedure from the patient's point of view. [19][20][21][22] Placebo effects can also be due to factors that extend beyond the physical charac-teristics of such treatment, [24][25][26][27] and these psychological factors must also be accounted for when measuring a placebo effect.…”

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Evaluation of Acupuncture for Pain Control After Oral Surgery

Lao¹,

Bergman²,

Hamilton³

et al. 1999

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg

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Evaluation of Acupuncture for Pain Control After Oral Surgery

Lao¹,

Bergman²,

Hamilton³

et al. 1999

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg

148

102

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“…A few studies have used ostensibly inert placebo controls: acupuncture needles were rubbed against the skin (Borglum Jensen et al, 1979) or glued to it (Vincent and Richardson, 1986); the skin was pricked with a fingernail to simulate acupuncture (Junnila, 1982), and the skin was touched superficially with the blunt end of the needle (Hesse et al, 1994). Unfortunately, these studies did not examine the extent to which people in the control group believed they were receiving real acupuncture.…”

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Description and Validation of a Noninvasive Placebo Acupuncture Procedure

Sherman

Hogeboom

Cherkin

et al. 2002

The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

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Objective: To evaluate a simulated acupuncture technique for use in randomized controlled trials assessing the efficacy of acupuncture for low-back pain.Setting: The clinic of an accredited acupuncture college in Seattle, Washington. Subjects: Acupuncture-naïve enrollees of Group Health Cooperative who had visited their primary care provider with a complaint of back pain that persisted for at least 3 months.Experimental design: In the first experiment, subjects received six insertions of real needles and six pokes with a toothpick in a guidetube in a two-period crossover design. In the second experiment, subjects were randomly assigned to receive either a complete treatment with real acupuncture needles or a simulated treatment using a toothpick in a guidetube.Outcomes: In the first experiment, we compared subjects' perceptions about which implement was used for each "insertion" while in the second, we compared the perceptions (e.g., acupuncturist's warmth and caring, the reasonableness of acupuncture as a treatment) and pain relief of those who received an acupuncture treatment using needles to those receiving simulated acupuncture.Results: In the first experiment, the toothpick insertions were perceived as slightly more like real needling than the real needling (mean ratings of 2.8 and 2.1, respectively; p 5 0.08). In the second experiment, 52% percent of those receiving the simulated needling versus 65% of those receiving real acupuncture believed they were "definitely" or "probably" receiving real acupuncture (p 5 0.33). Perceptions of acupuncture, as measured by a credibility questionnaire, were similar in the two groups. Those receiving real acupuncture were more likely to report immediate pain relief, and this was the factor most predictive of the subject's belief about which treatment they had received (p 5 0.02).Conclusions: The simulated acupuncture procedure evaluated in this study represents a reasonable control treatment for acupuncture-naïve individuals in randomized controlled trials assessing the efficacy of acupuncture for low-back pain.

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Acupuncture versus Metoprolol in Migraine Prophylaxis

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Evaluation of Acupuncture for Pain Control After Oral Surgery

Evaluation of Acupuncture for Pain Control After Oral Surgery

Description and Validation of a Noninvasive Placebo Acupuncture Procedure

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