Acupuncture and dry-needling for low back pain (Review)

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Table 5. Adequacy of acupuncture (Continued) Lehmann 1986 Choice of meridians is OK Adequate Adequate Adequate Sham TENS Leibing 2002 Adequate Adequate Adequate Adequate Sham acupuncture Li 1997 Adequate Adequate Adequate Not reported Manual acupuncture without cupping. Lopacz 1979 Not reported Adequate Not reported Not reported Placebo: to control for attention effect. MacDonald 1983 Adequate meridian) (not Adequate Adequate for the purpose of the study Not reported Sham TENS. It is easy for patients to perceive that they were receiving different treatments Mendelson 1983 Adequate Adequate Adequate Adequate Maybe not adequate placebo. May have some analgesic effect. Meng 2003 Adequate Adequate Adequate Adequate Standard therapy Molsberger 2002 Adequate Adequate Adequate Adequate Sham acupuncture: good placebo. Sakai 1998 Adequate Adequate for the purpose of the study Not reported Not reported Medication Sakai 2001 Adequate (not meridian) Adequate for the purpose of the study Not reported Not reported TENS: seems adequate. But number of sessions too small. Takeda 2001 Adequate for the purpose of the study Adequate Not reported Not reported Other acupuncture technique: local versus distal points. But there is no description about credibility of sham acupuncture Thomas 1994 Adequate Adequate Adequate Adequate No treatment Acupuncture and dry-needling for low back pain (Review) Copyright © 2011 The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 126
Table 5. Adequacy of acupuncture (Continued) Tsukayama 2002 Adequate Adequate for the purpose of the study Adequate Not reported TENS but number of sessions too small. Von 1988 Mencke Adequate Adequate Adequate Not reported Sham acupuncture Wang 1996 Adequate Adequate Adequate Adequate Active acupuncture: distal points Wu 1991 Adequate (for acute LBP) Adequate (single session for acute LBP) Adequate Adequate Another active acupuncture treatment Yeung 2003 Adequate Adequate for the purpose of the study Adequate Adequate Physiotherapy (standard exercises) Patients in the exercise group did not receive the same attention as in the acupuncture group A P P E N D I C E S Appendix 1. MEDLINE search strategy 1 randomized controlled trial.pt. (72769) 2 controlled clinical trial.pt. (16977) 3 Randomized Controlled Trials/ (17706) 4 Random Allocation/ (11879) 5 Double-Blind Method/ (26902) 6 Single-Blind Method/ (4389) 7 or/1-6 (120640) 8 Animal/ not Human/ (583159) 9 7 not 8 (112795) 10 clinical trial.pt. (144571) 11 exp Clinical Trials/ (45063) 12 ((singl$ or doubl$ or trebl$ or tripl$) adj (mask$ or blind$)).tw. (24652) 13 Placebos/ (4548) 14 placebo$.tw. (30921) 15 random$.tw. (123481) 16 Research Design/ (12824) 17 (latin adj square).tw. (663) 18 (clinic$ adj25 trial$).tw. (43883) 19 or/10-18 (275600) Acupuncture and dry-needling for low back pain (Review) Copyright © 2011 The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 127
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Analysis 5.2. Comparison 5 acupunct
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[Intervention Review] Acupuncture a
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of experts in acupuncture treatment
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Although the conclusions showed som
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R E F E R E N C E S References to s
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Wu 1991 {published data only} Wu YC
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treatments by traditional acupunctu
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Araki 2001 (Continued) Conclusion:
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Ceccherelli 2002 Methods Participan
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Cherkin 2001 (Continued) or acupunc
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Ding 1998 Methods Participants Inte
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Garvey 1989 Methods Participants In
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Giles 2003 Methods Participants Int
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Grant 1999 Methods Participants Int
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(Continued) Kinoshita 1981 Koike 19
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