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The author of one study, Dominik Irnich, MD, tells that, "acupuncture is widespread in the world. Western medicine is wonderful and successful, but in many, many chronic conditions ... there is a lack of success, and Eastern medicine methods may be the right choice. ... [Our] study shows that acupuncture is more effective than one of the most customary treatments for chronic neck pain." Irnich is an anesthesiologist specializing in pain therapy at the University of Munich and the German Medical Acupuncture Association.
Irnich and colleagues treated 177 people suffering from chronic neck pain with acupuncture, massage, or 'sham' laser acupuncture. Those given the sham laser treatment were told that special laser light was being beamed into acupuncture points in the body in order to stimulate those points. In reality, the laser light did nothing. The sham laser was performed in order to control for the possibility that the idea alone of having acupuncture might affect the results; this is known as the placebo effect.
After one week and five treatments, those treated with acupuncture had a greater improvement in motion related neck pain compared with those treated with massage but not compared with those given sham laser. The study is published in the June 30, 2001, issue of the British Medical Journal.
Another study conducted by the Tzu Chi University in Taiwan demonstrated that cupping, a modality of Traditional Chinese Medicine, provided significant pain relief for chronic neck and shoulder pain. Read more...
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