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Research: MUSIAL and COLLEAGUES
Listed in Issue 180
Abstract
MUSIAL and COLLEAGUES, Innere Medizin V, Naturheilkunde und Integrative Medizin, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Knappschafts-Krankenhaus, Universitat Duisburg-Essen, Stiftungsprofessur fur Naturheilkunde, Essen, Deutschland. f.musial@kliniken-essen-mitte.de investigate acupuncture and sham acupuncture efficacy in the reduction of chronic pain.
Background
The German acupuncture trials ART and GERAC have shown that acupuncture and sham or minimal acupuncture were equally effective in the reduction of chronic pain symptoms.
Methodology
These results have prompted an ongoing discussion as to whether acupuncture exerts its effects through a placebo response.
Results
Increasing knowledge about the neurobiology of pain and its intrinsic control suggests a combination of acupuncture-specific neurophysiologic effects combined with effects that match those of expectation-induced placebo analgesia.
Conclusion
References
Musial F, Tao I and Dobos G. [Is the analgesic effect of acupuncture a placebo effect?]. [German]. Schmerz, 23(4): 341-6. Aug 2009.
