Needling Point Location Used in Sham Acupuncture for Chronic Nonspecific Low Back Pain

Comparative effectiveness of acupuncture in sham-controlled trials for knee osteoarthritis: A systematic review and network meta-analysis

(2023) Boram Lee et al.   Frontiers in Medicine

Methods matters: comments on the currently published article in Pain Medicine, “Effect of sham acupuncture on chronic pain: a Bayesian network meta-analysis”

(2023) Tae-Hun Kim et al.   PAIN MEDICINE

Acupuncture is ineffective for chronic low back pain? A critical analysis and rethinking

(2021) Xuqiang Wei et al.   Frontiers of Medicine

Historical perspectives on using sham acupuncture in acupuncture clinical trials

(2021) Stephen Birch et al.   Integrative Medicine Research

Acupuncture Treatment Modulates the Connectivity of Key Regions of the Descending Pain Modulation and Reward Systems in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain

(2020) Siyi Yu et al.   Journal of Clinical Medicine

Clinical practice guidelines for the management of non-specific low back pain in primary care: an updated overview

(2018) Crystian B. Oliveira et al.   EUROPEAN SPINE JOURNAL

What Is the Point? The Problem with Acupuncture Research That No One Wants to Talk About

(2018) Helene M. Langevin et al.   JOURNAL OF ALTERNATIVE AND COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE

Advances in the GRADE approach to rate the certainty in estimates from a network meta-analysis

(2018) Romina Brignardello-Petersen et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Non-specific low back pain

(2017) Chris Maher et al.   LANCET

What is lost in the acupuncture trial when using a sham intervention?

(2017) Tae-Hun Kim et al.   Acupuncture in Medicine

Low back pain and sciatica: summary of NICE guidance

(2017) Ian A Bernstein et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

Low back pain and sciatica: summary of NICE guidance

(2017) Ian A Bernstein et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

The PRISMA Extension Statement for Reporting of Systematic Reviews Incorporating Network Meta-analyses of Health Care Interventions: Checklist and Explanations

(2015) Brian Hutton et al.   ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

A GRADE Working Group approach for rating the quality of treatment effect estimates from network meta-analysis

(2014) M. A. Puhan et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

Acupuncture for Chronic Low Back Pain

(2012) Yu-Jeong Cho et al.   SPINE

Point specificity in acupuncture

(2012) Emma M Choi et al.   Chinese Medicine

A Randomized Trial Comparing Acupuncture, Simulated Acupuncture, and Usual Care for Chronic Low Back Pain

(2009) Daniel C. Cherkin et al.   ARCHIVES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

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

(2009) Iréne Lund et al.   Chinese Medicine

A pilot study on using acupuncture and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation to treat chronic non-specific low back pain

(2008) Kazunori Itoh et al.   Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice