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The Development of Group Acupuncture for Chronic Knee Pain Was All about Providing Frequent Electroacupuncture

The Development of Group Acupuncture for Chronic Knee Pain Was All about Providing Frequent... Letters in UK National Health Service (NHS) technical aspects of the treatment primary care. I am writing to remind would be relatively easy to teach. readers how and why these group The clinic was first run as a show- clinics were first set up in an attempt piece for the reopening of the Royal to ensure that any future randomised London Homeopathic Hospital fol- controlled trials (RCTs) of acupunc- lowing its refurbishment. It soon ture for chronic knee pain use the became operational and was run ini- optimum parameters for treatment. tially by Saul Berkovitz, Chris Perrin I first approached Dr Saul Berkovitz (nurse manager) and Reiko Ito (nurse (consultant physician) in 2005 to practitioner). Data were collected engage support for a new model of from the first cohort of patients, and supplying acupuncture treatment, fol- published in this journal (figure 1). lowing on from the good results of Theclinicwas very popular, andthe the study by Vas et al published in the outcomes were in line with the large 3 6 BMJ in 2004. It was termed the high data sets from Germany. So it was volume acupuncture clinic (HVAC), with some surprise that we read the and the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Acupuncture in Medicine SAGE

The Development of Group Acupuncture for Chronic Knee Pain Was All about Providing Frequent Electroacupuncture

Acupuncture in Medicine , Volume 30 (4): 2 – Dec 1, 2012

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SAGE
Copyright
© 2012 British Medical Acupuncutre Society
ISSN
0964-5284
eISSN
1759-9873
DOI
10.1136/acupmed-2012-010260
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23128011
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Abstract

Letters in UK National Health Service (NHS) technical aspects of the treatment primary care. I am writing to remind would be relatively easy to teach. readers how and why these group The clinic was first run as a show- clinics were first set up in an attempt piece for the reopening of the Royal to ensure that any future randomised London Homeopathic Hospital fol- controlled trials (RCTs) of acupunc- lowing its refurbishment. It soon ture for chronic knee pain use the became operational and was run ini- optimum parameters for treatment. tially by Saul Berkovitz, Chris Perrin I first approached Dr Saul Berkovitz (nurse manager) and Reiko Ito (nurse (consultant physician) in 2005 to practitioner). Data were collected engage support for a new model of from the first cohort of patients, and supplying acupuncture treatment, fol- published in this journal (figure 1). lowing on from the good results of Theclinicwas very popular, andthe the study by Vas et al published in the outcomes were in line with the large 3 6 BMJ in 2004. It was termed the high data sets from Germany. So it was volume acupuncture clinic (HVAC), with some surprise that we read the and the

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Published: Dec 1, 2012

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