Indications that acupuncture has good evidence for: - self-reported pain (chronic and acute) Indications that acupuncture has no good evidence for: - fertility - depression - epilepsy - infectious disease - pretty much everything elsehttps://twitter.com/DrJenGunter/status/1074327191486324736 …
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Whenever I listen to Skeptics With A K and hear
@mikehall314 talking about the placebo, all I can think of is that acupuncture is the perfect example of a placebo intervention2 replies 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
It's impossible to blind acupuncture trials effectively, so there's always going to be some bias there Nevertheless, what you see is big variability in the less well-done trials that disappears the better the trials are
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And then most systematic reviews find minimal or no evidence of benefit (or evidence of a statistically significant but clinically unimportant benefit) Except for pain
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Now maybe that's because acupuncture does work really well for pain - it's certainly possible
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But pain is the one thing that we can't measure in any objective way - it is by its very nature subjective So it's really hard to tell, given that acupuncture trials can never be blinded, whether the pain finding is actually because of acupuncture or something else
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My standard spiel for patients asking about acupuncture etc is that I can’t give them evidence that it works, but so long as there is no evidence for harm, it’s worth a go- if they feel like it is making a difference, then crack on.
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I have to give that speech at every family gathering about some issue, although I usually just tell people to see a doctor (because I'm not one) as well
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Lols! I try to tell my family to see their own GP, doesn’t stop the conversation any more. Except about chiro- my carefully executed behavioural modification has worked, and now they know to avoid
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