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. 1983 Jan;65(1):44–46.

Superficial acupuncture in the relief of chronic low back pain.

A J Macdonald, K D Macrae, B R Master, A P Rubin
PMCID: PMC2494194  PMID: 6218776

Abstract

A single-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial of superficial acupuncture in the treatment of low back pain was carried out by comparing 8 patients treated by acupuncture with 9 patients treated by placebo. In all five measures of efficacy chosen for study the acupuncture group achieved better responses than the placebo group; four of the five inter-group differences were statistically significant. In addition, an overall mean for all five measures combined showed significant superiority of acupuncture over placebo.

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