A newly published meta-analysis in the "Archives of Internal Medicine" shows that acupuncture provides significant pain relief when compared to sham acupuncture and usual pain relievers; see: http://www.medpagetoday.com/PrimaryCare/AlternativeMedicine/34673
Quoting from the article: |For back and neck pain, osteoarthritis, and chronic headache, pain |scores among patients treated with acupuncture were 0.23 |(95% CI 0.13 to 0.33), 0.16 (95% CI 0.07 to 0.25) and 0.15 |(95% CI 0.07 to 0.24) standard deviations below the scores for patients |receiving sham acupuncture (P<0.001 for all), according to Andrew J. |Vickers, DPhil, of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in |New York City, and colleagues. | |But effect sizes were even larger when acupuncture was compared |with no acupuncture, with scores of 0.55 (95% CI 0.51 to 0.58), | 0.57 (95% CI 0.50 to 0.64), and 0.42 (95% CI 0.37 to 0.46) standard |deviations lower (P<0.001 for all), the researchers reported online |in Archives of Internal Medicine. The reference for the Archive article is given on the webpage. -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=20315 or send a blank email to leave-20315-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
