TY - JOUR
T1 - Electroacupuncture treatment of acute low back pain
T2 - Unlikely to be a placebo response
AU - Chia, Kwan Leung
PY - 2014/8
Y1 - 2014/8
N2 - Acupuncture is commonly used for acute low back pain (LBP), and a recent systematic review found encouraging evidence on its effectiveness compared with medication or sham acupuncture.1 I believe your readers will be interested to hear the details of a recently treated case which is somewhat unusual, and where the patient’s improvement seems likely to be more than a placebo response.
AB - Acupuncture is commonly used for acute low back pain (LBP), and a recent systematic review found encouraging evidence on its effectiveness compared with medication or sham acupuncture.1 I believe your readers will be interested to hear the details of a recently treated case which is somewhat unusual, and where the patient’s improvement seems likely to be more than a placebo response.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84905861891&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1136/acupmed-2014-010582
DO - 10.1136/acupmed-2014-010582
M3 - Letter
C2 - 24834494
AN - SCOPUS:84905861891
SN - 0964-5284
VL - 32
SP - 354
EP - 355
JO - Acupuncture in Medicine
JF - Acupuncture in Medicine
IS - 4
ER -