Sham acupuncture
Efficacy of acupuncture for chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndromes: study protocol for a randomized, sham acupuncture controlled trial
... traditional acupuncture (A) or sham acupuncture (blunt needles used to stimulate the acupoint skin) (B)?” The participants can answer “A”, “B” or “unclear” (these two interventions will be ...
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Are acupoints specific for diseases? A systematic review of the randomized controlled trials with sham acupuncture controls
... proper acupuncture groups ranged from one to ...No acupuncture treatment-related informa- tion was reported in the trial by Fink et ...with sham acupuncture controls included in this ...
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Efficacy of acupuncture versus sham acupuncture for postprandial distress syndrome: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... Since acupuncture is a complex intervention, it is different from ...of acupuncture will be altered, if the acupoints in the study are ...of acupuncture and sham acupuncture responders ...
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Efficacy of electro acupuncture and manual acupuncture versus sham acupuncture for knee osteoarthritis: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
... Methods/design: This is a study protocol for a randomised, three-arm, multicentre, clinical trial. A total of 480 patients with KOA will be randomly assigned to the electro-acupuncture group, the manual ...
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Efficacy of electro acupuncture and manual acupuncture versus sham acupuncture for knee osteoarthritis: statistical analysis plan for a randomized controlled trial
... Manual acupuncture; MMRM: Mixed-effect model with repeated measurement; NRS: Numerical rating scale; PROM: Patient-reported outcome measure; SA: Sham acupuncture; SF-12: 12-item Short Form Health ...
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Health related quality of life in a trial of acupuncture, sham acupuncture and conventional treatment for chronic sinusitis
... had acupuncture treatment, had been operated on for chronic sinusitis, had polypous sinusitis or pansi- nusitis, or used medication that could influence the results of the ...Chinese acupuncture (TCA), or ...
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The combination effects of body acupuncture and auricular acupressure compared to sham acupuncture for body weight control: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... of acupuncture on body weight control in Hong ...utilizing acupuncture in obesity treatment especially for patients with Hong Kong diet patterns and health ...for acupuncture point stimulation on the ...
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Acupuncture for chronic low back pain: protocol for a multicenter, randomized, sham controlled trial
... randomized sham-controlled trial with 2 parallel ...and sham acupuncture treatments. The real acupuncture treatment group received real acupuncture 2 times a week, during a total of 12 ...
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Wrist ankle acupuncture (WAA) for precompetition nervous syndrome: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... Methods/Design: The study was designed as a randomized controlled single-blind trial to evaluate the effects of WAA for precompetition anxiety. The trial will be conducted in annual track and field events of Shanghai ...
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Effect of Acupuncture Stimulation of GV 20 Point on Electroencephalogram
... verum acupuncture at the LI 4/sham point on the EEG findings of 20 healthy individuals, reported an increase in the frequency of the alpha band and a shift of the ratio of alpha/theta to the benefit of ...
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Efficacy of acupuncture for cocaine dependence: a systematic review & meta-analysis
... of sham controls and blinding of patients may prevent bias. The sham acupunc- ture method has been an area of debate as it is difficult to determine if a needle inserted into the skin away from des- ignated ...
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Acupuncture modulates resting state connectivity in default and sensorimotor brain networks
... For SHAM, needle insertion was first simulated by poking the skin over PC-6 with a ...were acupuncture-naive and were not informed of a sham acupuncture condition, only that there would be ...
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Acupuncture for tension-type headache: a multicentre, sham-controlled, patient-and observer-blinded, randomised trial
... wrong acupuncture treatment (verum acupuncture instead of sham acupuncture for 3 patients), median number of needles more or fewer than the permitted 10–25 nee- dles per session, treatment ...
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Acupuncture for patients with insomnia disorder using resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging: a protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... and sham acupuncture groups and the healthy control group will be compared using independ- ent t ...after acupuncture. Paired t tests will be used to compare the pre-acupuncture and ...
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The cerebral mechanism of acupuncture for treating knee osteoarthritis: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... (verum acupuncture group, sham acupuncture group and waiting-list group) with two time points (pre-treatment and post-treatment), the repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) will be employed ...
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<p>Acupuncture therapy for fibromyalgia: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials</p>
... This systematic review has several limitations. First, a low number of studies were included in our review, and most of the studies had a relatively small sample size. This limitation may lead to imprecise evidence. ...
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Sinew acupuncture for knee osteoarthritis: study protocol for a randomized sham controlled trial
... In acupuncture RCTs, it is critical to choose an appro- priate control ...that acupuncture was superior to both sham and no acu- puncture controls for osteoarthritis pain with effect sizes of ...with ...
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Effect of acustimulation on nausea and vomiting and on hyperemesis in pregnancy: a systematic review of Western and Chinese literature
... various acupuncture modalities have assessed their efficacy for treating NVP and HG ...against sham acupuncture or other ...than sham acupressure in reducing ...whether acupuncture is ...
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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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Hypoglossal acupuncture for acute chemotherapy induced dysgeusia in patients with breast cancer: study protocol of a randomized, sham controlled trial
... The study is a randomized controlled clinical trial com- paring verum acupuncture with two active comparators: sham acupuncture and standard medical care. It is de- signed according to the Standard ...
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