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Originally Posted by GreyWolf
It is the presence of the needle that induces the effect, not the location. [...]
Acupuncture works.
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Howabout this study from the Clinical Journal of Pain, where they used sham needles that retracted instead of piercing, so that both the researchers and the patients were blind to which group was real? It seems to address the concerns you listed above.
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Results: Arm pain scores improved in both groups during the treatment period, but improvements were significantly greater in the sham group than in the true acupuncture group. This difference disappeared by 1 month after treatment ended. The true acupuncture group experienced more side effects, predominately mild pain at time of treatments.
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Acupuncture for Treatment of Persistent Arm Pain Due to Repe... : The Clinical Journal of Pain