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mk6283
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 Posted - 08/03/2010 : 11:50:34
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"A number of clinical trials have evaluated the efficacy of acupuncture for chronic low back pain. A meta-analysis in 2008, which involved a total of 6359 patients, showed that real acupuncture treatments were no more effective than sham acupuncture treatments."
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMct0806114
Best,
MK
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tennis tom
USA
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Posted - 08/03/2010 : 17:47:27
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Along these same lines here's an old post of mine from 2006 regarding some other modalities that are quackery but may deliver a placebo effect:
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Information like this does become public knowledge, but only for a day or two, then it fleetingly gets erased from the public memory.
In just the past year or two I have seen newsreports stating the long-awaited hard science results from reputable institutions, debunking popularly used supplements and therapies such as accupuncture, glucosamine-chrondroitin, st. john's wort, and marijuana. The studies have proven that these things have NO medical or health value. The news of the study is reported in the media for 24 hours and then disappears into the dust-bin of current event history. There is no money interest in keeping the story going.
The people who have a money interest in the useless products and services more than over-power the hard science reporting with comercieals or spokespersons who twist, take out of context and obfuscate the results to make it sound like the voo-doo they are selling works.
TAKE THE HOLMES-RAHE STRESS TEST
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes_and_Rahe_stress_scale
Some of my favorite excerpts from _THE DIVIDED MIND_ :
http://www.tmshelp.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2605
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Acupuncture for Chronic LBP in the NEJM
