RT Journal
A1 Cherkin DC, Sherman KJ
T1 Acupuncture research: Placebos by many other names—reply
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2009
FD October 26
VO 169
IS 19
SP 1806
OP 1818
DO 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.379
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2009.379
AB 

			Our trial was designed to determine if adjunctive acupuncture needling was more effective than usual care alone for chronic back pain and if acupuncture involving needle insertion was more effective than simulated (noninsertive) acupuncture in clinically relevant acupuncture points.1 We found that insertive and noninsertive acupuncture had similar effects that were superior to usual care alone. We concluded that “it remains unclear whether acupuncture or our simulated method of acupuncture provide physiologically important stimulation or represent placebo or nonspecific effects.”1(p858)