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Non-penetrating Sham Acupuncture
Most randomised-controlled trials of acupuncture use penetrating sham acupuncture as control intervention. Sham acupuncture is described as acupuncture at points which are not known as acupuncture points. Because of physiological changes due to skin penetration sham acupuncture should not be defined as placebo control. In 1998 a new placebo needle was introduced by Streitberger. This placebo ne...
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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. In this essay, it is argued that sensory, cognitive and emotional factors are major determinants of the magnitude of plac...
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Due to the lack of an appropriate placebo, the general scientific society has questioned studies on the effects of acupuncture. The double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial is said to be the gold standard for showing that a treatment has a specific effect over placebo. But acu‐ puncture treatments undoubtedly involve placebo effects. In order to support the study of acupuncture’s effects...
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OBJECTIVES 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. METHODS sham needles were developed by blunting true acupuncture needles. Whiplash injured patients (<16 weeks duration) were randomly allocated to receive either true acupunc...
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UNLABELLED 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. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the blinding effectiveness of the Park sham acupuncture device using participants' ability to discriminate between the real and sham acupuncture needles. DESIGN The design was a yes-no experiment. Judgments were m...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Medical Association Journal
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0820-3946,1488-2329
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.130319