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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine - Unfortunately Supported by Evidence
 
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parasyte
Aug 13, 2003

Nobody wants to die except the suicides. They're no fun.

Cheekio posted:

http://summaries.cochrane.org/CD001351/BACK_acupuncture-and-dry-needling-for-low-back-pain

The conclusion that the Cochrane Collaboration came to was that acupuncture outperformed the control groups by a statistically significant margin across the many studies they examined.

No.

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Compared to no treatment, there is evidence for pain relief and functional improvement for acupuncture at shorter-term follow-ups. Compared to sham therapies, there is evidence for pain relief at shorter term follow-up, but these effects were not maintained at the longer-term follow-ups, nor were they observed for functional outcomes.

Acupuncture outperformed no treatment, and placebo also outperformed no treatment. Acupuncture did not outperform placebo. That paper even blasts most of the papers it analyzes for poor methodologies and lovely reporting.

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