Is placebo acupuncture what it is intended to be?

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2011, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Näslund, Jan ^b   Lundeberg, Thomas ^a   Lund, Irene ^b   Sing, Audrey ^a  

^a Sabbatsberg Hospital   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLECYSTOKININ; FLUNARIZINE; METOPROLOL; PLACEBO; PROPRANOLOL;

ACUPUNCTURE; ANALGESIA; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; CORPUS STRIATUM; HUMAN; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; KNEE PAIN; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LOW BACK PAIN; MIGRAINE; NEEDLE; PAIN; PLACEBO EFFECT; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 80052756441     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ecam/nep049     Document Type: Review

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