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Minimal acupuncture is not a valid placebo control in randomised controlled trials of acupuncture: a physiologist's perspective

Placebo-control of acupuncture is used to evaluate and distinguish between the specific effects and the non-specific ones. During 'true' acupuncture treatment in general, the needles are inserted into acupoints and stimulated until deqi is evoked. In contrast, during placebo acupuncture, t...

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Autores principales: Lund, Iréne, Näslund, Jan, Lundeberg, Thomas
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2644695/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19183454
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8546-4-1