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A double-blind placebo needle for acupuncture research

BACKGROUND: Placebo needles that can mask acupuncture practitioners to the type of needle used have been considered almost impossible to develop until now. METHODS: We designed a double-blind non-penetrating placebo needle, the needle tip of which simply presses against the skin, and a matched penet...

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Autores principales: Takakura, Nobuari, Yajima, Hiroyoshi
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2176062/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17925042
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6882-7-31