Placebo acupuncture
Appropriateness of sham or placebo acupuncture for randomized controlled trials of acupuncture for nonspecific low back pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis
... Methods: Six databases were searched on 31 May 2017. We included only randomized con- trolled trials of adults with LBP and lower back myofascial pain syndrome. The studies had at least two control arms: a ...
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Effect of acupuncture and instruction on physiological recovery from maximal exercise: a balanced placebo controlled trial
... or placebo acupuncture within 6 min of completing the GXT (total treatment time = 20 ...Real acupuncture points included Neiguan (PC6), Zusanli (ST36), Lieque (LU7), and Tanzhang (REN17), while ...
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A systematic review of the effects of acupuncture on xerostomia and hyposalivation
... following acupuncture methods: auriculotherapy [26], acupuncture according to traditional Chinese medicine [27, 28], acupuncture according to traditional Chinese and ortho- dox Western medicine [29], ...
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Target dIsease Guided placEbo contRolled (TIGER) design: a novel method for clinical trials of acupuncture
... ideal placebo control in acupuncture studies challenges ...sham acupuncture techniques have reported various imperfections; therefore, the specific effects of acupuncture cannot be accurately ...
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Comparison of the placebo effect between different non penetrating acupuncture devices and real acupuncture in healthy subjects: a randomized clinical trial
... the placebo de- vice was not detected as placebo or not penetrating by the ...the placebo acupuncture devices showed results similar to real acupuncture at both ST25 and BL52 points, ...
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Effect of transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation combined with palonosetron on chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting: a single-blind, randomized, controlled trial
... and placebo acupuncture, as well as the possible adverse effects of anti-emetic drugs (constipation, headache, and dizziness) and acupuncture treatment (uncomfortable feelings of the ...
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Design of a randomised acupuncture trial on functional neck/shoulder stiffness with two placebo controls
... single-blind acupuncture placebo/sham devices have been considered the most rigorous method for investigating the efficacy of acu- puncture ...in acupuncture research and it may be crucial in ...
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Acupuncture to improve tolerance of diagnostic esophagogastroduodenoscopy in patients without systemic sedation: results of a single center, double blinded, randomized controlled trial (DRKS00000164)
... on acupuncture for migraine prophylaxis reported that even acupuncture at the wrong place (sham acupuncture) could have a sig- nificant effect on the primary endpoint measure ...real placebo ...
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Does different information disclosure on placebo control affect blinding and trial outcomes? A case study of participant information leaflets of randomized placebo-controlled trials of acupuncture
... result, acupuncture is easily accessible and embedded in cultural ...with acupuncture compared to those in non-Asia region ...from placebo acu- ...detecting placebo acupuncture ...
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Minimal acupuncture is not a valid placebo control in randomised controlled trials of acupuncture: a physiologist's perspective
... of acupuncture is used to evaluate and distinguish between the specific effects and the non-specific ...'true' acupuncture treatment in general, the needles are inserted into acupoints and stimulated until ...
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Feasibility study of transfer function model on electrocardiogram change caused by acupuncture
... by acupuncture stimulation. From these TFs, a SAECG during acupuncture or after acupuncture can be predicted from an arbitrary SAECG before acupuncture, and a SAECG after acupuncture ...
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Combined electroacupuncture and auricular acupuncture for postoperative pain after abdominal surgery for gynecological diseases: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... that acupuncture can relieve pain after gynecological surgeries [3–5], abdom- inal surgeries [6–8], and other types of surgeries includ- ing oral surgery [9], thoracotomy [10], cardiac surgery [11], and ...
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The effects of acupuncture on pregnancy outcomes of in vitro fertilization: a systematic review and meta analysis
... of acupuncture treatments for women within a group; (6) needling in the control groups could be either no acupuncture or sham (placebo) acu- puncture; (7) both fresh and frozen–thawed embryo trans- ...
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The effectiveness of acupuncture research across components of the trauma spectrum response (tsr): a systematic review of reviews
... laser acupuncture) did not meet our criteria. Finally, we reviewed acupuncture across each individual TSR component rather than across all components be- cause there is no current literature that assesses ...
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Effect of acupuncture and its influence on cerebral activity in perimenopausal insomniacs: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... the acupuncture signal may stimulate the central inte- gration neural signal and improve emotional disorder, and the findings that there may be abnormal ...
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Randomized controlled trial to treat migraine with acupuncture: design and protocol
... that acupuncture does have effect in treating ...of acupuncture for treating migraine to large samples of ...using acupuncture to treat migraine is not due to physiological effects of acu- points ...
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Multiple Comparisons of Traditional Acupuncture Therapies of Japan, Korea and China—A Preliminary Report of Three Countries’ Acupuncture (TCA) Project
... tional acupuncture procedures and its theoretical concepts might developed based on their subjects in each country, so the facts that the subjects in this study were Japanese young students might also be a ...
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Acupuncture on Lactate, Perceived Exertion in Recreational Athlet es Submitted to HIIT
... of acupuncture on lactate removal, heart rate recovery, systolic blood pressure and ...previous acupuncture and seven days after the technique. Acupuncture increased exertion, resulting in higher ...
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<p>Effect of Acupuncture on Pregnancy-Related Insomnia and Melatonin: A Single-Blinded, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial</p>
... The effect size of intervention on sleep quality (PSQI) and 6-Sulfatoxymelatonin level was reported to be 3.7 (CI=2.8 – 4.6) and 0.6 (CI=0.1 – 1.2), which revealed a large (>0.8) and medium (>0.5) effect size, ...
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A double blind placebo needle for acupuncture research
... Sixty healthy volunteers (29.7 ± 7.5 years, 35 men, 25 women) who were familiar with receiving acupuncture were recruited for the validation study. Before the trial began, the experimental procedure was explained ...
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