http://www.ect.org/acupuncture-can-work/ Information about ECT Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:38:41 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.ect.org/acupuncture-can-work/comment-page-1/#comment-75850 Anonymous Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:22:28 +0000 http://www.ect.org/index.php/?p=412#comment-75850 The current issue of Archives of Internal Medicine (17 September 2007) has a report of a German study of acupuncture for chronic low back pain. The findings agree with those of several other German studies published recently, which show that acupuncture does work but it often makes little difference where the needles are inserted. Acupuncture, in other words, does not depend on the traditional theory; whether or not it is just a placebo remains an open question. The current issue of Archives of Internal Medicine (17 September 2007) has a report of a German study of acupuncture for chronic low back pain. The findings agree with those of several other German studies published recently, which show that acupuncture does work but it often makes little difference where the needles are inserted. Acupuncture, in other words, does not depend on the traditional theory; whether or not it is just a placebo remains an open question.

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