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True, sham acupuncture effective for back pain.(Pain Medicine)

Article from: Clinical Psychiatry News Article date: February 1, 2008 Author: Moon, Mary Ann

True acupuncture and sham acupuncture both were much more effective against chronic low-back pain than was conventional treatment in a large clinical trial comparing the three approaches.

Almost half the subjects who received either real or sham acupuncture for 6 months showed clinically relevant improvement in pain intensity or back-specific disability, compared with only one-fourth of the subjects who received a variety of conventional therapies, investigators in the German Acupuncture (GER-AC) Trials reported. (See ...

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