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Minimal acupuncture is not a valid placebo control in randomised controlled trials of acupuncture: a physiologist's perspective.

Lund I, Näslund J, Lundeberg T.

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Is Placebo Acupuncture What It is Intended to Be?

Lundeberg T, Lund I, Sing A, Näslund J.

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Are minimal, superficial or sham acupuncture procedures acceptable as inert placebo controls?

Lund I, Lundeberg T.

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[Thinking about the conclusion of no difference between the acupuncture and sham-acupuncture in the clinically therapeutic effects on migraine abroad]

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Clinical trials of acupuncture: consensus recommendations for optimal treatment, sham controls and blinding.

White AR, Filshie J, Cummings TM; International Acupuncture Research Forum.

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Review: acupuncture analgesia in clinical trials.

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Sham interventions in randomized clinical trials of acupuncture--a review.

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Credibility of a newly designed placebo needle for clinical trials in acupuncture research.

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Modellvorhaben Akupunktur - a summary of the ART, ARC and GERAC trials.

Cummings M.

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A cerebral functional imaging study by positron emission tomography in healthy volunteers receiving true or sham acupuncture needling.

Lai X, Zhang G, Huang Y, Tang C, Yang J, Wang S, Zhou SF.

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Characterization of the "deqi" response in acupuncture.

Hui KK, Nixon EE, Vangel MG, Liu J, Marina O, Napadow V, Hodge SM, Rosen BR, Makris N, Kennedy DN.

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The Emperors sham - wrong assumption that sham needling is sham.

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Acupuncture--self-appraisal and the reward system.

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Developing and validating a sham acupuncture needle.

Tough EA, White AR, Richards SH, Lord B, Campbell JL.

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[Acupuncture: quo vadis?]

Bäcker M, Tao I, Dobos GJ.

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Point specificity of acupuncture in the light of recent clinical and imaging studies.

Campbell A.

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Sham acupuncture may be as efficacious as true acupuncture: a systematic review of clinical trials.

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A controlled trial of placebo versus real acupuncture.

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Applicability of press needles to a double-blind trial: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

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[Is the analgesic effect of acupuncture a placebo effect?]

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