According to a new study released September 10, 2012, Acupuncture is superior to both standard medical care and sham acupuncture, suggesting strongly that the effect of acupuncture is much more than a placebo effect, as nay-sayers have said.
In a meta-analysis of 29 randomized, controlled trials, comprising 17,922 patients with markers for significant pain in back, neck, headache, or osteoarthritis pain, acupuncture was superior to control in all analyses.
"In other words, 20% of patients were feeling better because they had acupuncture; about one third of those would only feel better if the right needles were put in the right points to the right depth, and two thirds of them would feel better getting any kind of acupuncture," lead study author Andrew J. Vickers, DPhil, attending research methodologist, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, told Medscape Medical News.
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Acupuncture Superior to Standard Medical Care for Pain
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