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 @maureentaylor31 and
Over-thinking this. Could have just asked me my experience in the past 10 years. It reduces inflammation.
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Replying to @radiobeast66 @CaulfieldTim and
After over 3000 trials of acupuncture, some of them well-done, there is still no reason to think that it gives any worthwhile benefit for anything. But it is big business for the Chinese government who are less than scrupulous about pushing it.
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Replying to @radiobeast66 @david_colquhoun and
Are you genuine with this remark sue? It works for me, I've seen it work, my experience tells me? Do you think anecdote and the intrinsic biases if human beings are sufficient ? What if I told you leeches were key - what you take my account or want that tested robustly?
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Replying to @adamdobson123 @david_colquhoun and
Oh please. Don't play the quackery thing on me. And don't tell me what to do or think. It helps me, period. Conspiracies over Chinese government involvement is outrageous.
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Replying to @radiobeast66 @adamdobson123 and
Here is a great piece by the scholar
@AlanLevinovitz on role of Chinese government: https://slate.com/technology/2013/10/traditional-chinese-medicine-origins-mao-invented-it-but-didnt-believe-in-it.html ….2 replies 8 retweets 14 likes
I prefer to call TCM revisionist history a big retcon.https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/retconning-traditional-chinese-medicine/ …
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Replying to @gorskon @CaulfieldTim and
Certainly does well the spin the historical rhetoric- strong belief being it's old so must be effective
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