Recent meta-analysis by biostatistician Andrew Vickers finds "Acupuncture is effective for the treatment of chronic musculoskeletal, headache, and osteoarthritis pain. Treatment effects of acupuncture persist over time and cannot be explained solely in terms of placebo effects."
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How will skeptics interpret this one? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29198932
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Major heterogeneity driven by choice of control (sham = small effect, no control = larger effect) and not by treatment characteristics (style of acupuncture, duration of treatment sessions, training of acupuncturists). Basically, stick a needle in someone for pain relief.
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...and even then, the amount of relief that is achieved is questionable (like most other treatments for chronic pain).
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Also worth remembering that variable but often small treatment effects, only in subjective outcomes (i.e. self-reported pain), and limited/no biological plausibility make acupuncture a problematic topic
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