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Acupuncture Effects under Anaesthesia and Questions about Placebo

Acupuncture Effects under Anaesthesia and Questions about Placebo Letters cannot be ruled out and undermines anaesthesia at two points (compared Acupuncture effects under our ability to interpret fully the to one) had better outcomes, anaesthesia and questions results. The question concerning implying that greater stimulation about placebo placebo is not easy to address with improves efficacy. In the second this particular study design. In cited study, the treatment evaluated Dear Editor, research involving placebos it is often was laser acupuncture, hence the We found the recent article by prudent to add a group receiving no reference to needle retention is Liodden et al to be interesting, treatment, which helps address issues incorrect; the acupuncture point especially due to the design and the around the natural course of the was stimulated with a laser for subsequent permission of the ethics disease. Moreover, the argument that 1 min. In the third cited study, con- committee to allow this study to be the use of placebo may deceive the tinuous electrical stimulation was performed in ‘the real world’. parents is more likely to be under- applied to the skin for 5 min, which However, that discussion is not the stood as a Rosenthal effect rather is arguably a much greater http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Acupuncture in Medicine SAGE

Acupuncture Effects under Anaesthesia and Questions about Placebo

Acupuncture in Medicine , Volume 34 (2): 2 – Apr 1, 2016

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Publisher
SAGE
Copyright
© 2016 British Medical Acupuncutre Society
ISSN
0964-5284
eISSN
1759-9873
DOI
10.1136/acupmed-2015-010931
pmid
26376848
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Abstract

Letters cannot be ruled out and undermines anaesthesia at two points (compared Acupuncture effects under our ability to interpret fully the to one) had better outcomes, anaesthesia and questions results. The question concerning implying that greater stimulation about placebo placebo is not easy to address with improves efficacy. In the second this particular study design. In cited study, the treatment evaluated Dear Editor, research involving placebos it is often was laser acupuncture, hence the We found the recent article by prudent to add a group receiving no reference to needle retention is Liodden et al to be interesting, treatment, which helps address issues incorrect; the acupuncture point especially due to the design and the around the natural course of the was stimulated with a laser for subsequent permission of the ethics disease. Moreover, the argument that 1 min. In the third cited study, con- committee to allow this study to be the use of placebo may deceive the tinuous electrical stimulation was performed in ‘the real world’. parents is more likely to be under- applied to the skin for 5 min, which However, that discussion is not the stood as a Rosenthal effect rather is arguably a much greater

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Acupuncture in MedicineSAGE

Published: Apr 1, 2016

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