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SUBMITTER: Vickers AJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5927830 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vickers Andrew J AJ Vertosick Emily A EA Lewith George G MacPherson Hugh H Foster Nadine E NE Sherman Karen J KJ Irnich Dominik D Witt Claudia M CM Linde Klaus K
The journal of pain 20171202 5
Despite wide use in clinical practice, acupuncture remains a controversial treatment for chronic pain. Our objective was to update an individual patient data meta-analysis to determine the effect size of acupuncture for 4 chronic pain conditions. We searched MEDLINE and the Cochrane Central Registry of Controlled Trials randomized trials published up until December 31, 2015. We included randomized trials of acupuncture needling versus either sham acupuncture or no acupuncture control for nonspec ...[more]