The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is considering adding coverage of acupuncture for chronic #lowbackpain and HHS is focusing on providing more evidence-based non-drug treatment options for #chronicpain in response to “the #opioid crisis”
http://nationalpainreport.com/cms-looking-at-acupuncture-for-back-pain-8838470.html …
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Replying to @NatPainReport
Please take care not it over-interpret the research on acupuncture. The better the study, the smaller the effect. Mostly regression to the mean + placebo theatre. See http://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/november-2017/acupuncture-and-the-placebo-problem/ … cc
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Replying to @CaulfieldTim @NatPainReport and
Placebo effects are mainly artifacts of the clinical trial process. When studied rigorously they really don't appear to have much, if any, the way of clinically significant effects.
3:00 PM - 27 Jan 2019
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