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Study: Placebo or Not, Acupuncture Helps Pain
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22...tised.html

Acupuncture treatment is not as safe as advertised

Investigators from the National Patient Safety Agency, part of the UK's government-funded National Health Service, assembled all reports of adverse events following acupuncture treatment in NHS clinics between 2009 and 2011. In these clinics, acupuncture is provided by conventionally qualified doctors and therapists, who are also trained to perform acupuncture. This is offered in several NHS hospitals, GP's surgeries and nearly all NHS pain clinics.

The investigators found 325 reports of adverse effects. There is no data for the total number of acupuncture treatments given, so the frequency of these events cannot be calculated. But other studies in Germany and the UK have found adverse effects following some 10 per cent of treatments.

Some of the reports were merely of sloppy practice. In 100 cases, patients were left with needles still in them, sometimes hours longer than intended or even after they or the staff went home. Some needles subsequently had to be surgically removed...


Gee! Only 5 lung-collapses from acupuncture reported over 2 years... 'must be very safe, indeed!
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Re: Study: Placebo or Not, Acupuncture Helps Pain - by Chakravartin - 09-11-2012, 11:16 AM

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