Specifying the nonspecific components of acupuncture analgesia

Pain

Volumn 154, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1659-1667

  Vase, Lene ^a,b   Baram, Sara ^a   Takakura, Nobuari ^c   Yajima, Hiroyoshi ^c   Takayama, Miho ^c   Kaptchuk, Ted J ^d   Schou, Søren ^a   Jensen, Troels Staehelin ^b   Zachariae, Robert ^a,b   Svensson, Peter ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c TOKYO ARIAKE UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acupuncture analgesia; Expectation; Nonspecific; Perception; Placebo analgesia

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; LIDOCAINE; PLACEBO;

ACUPUNCTURE; ACUPUNCTURE ANALGESIA; ACUPUNCTURE NEEDLE; ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL SURGERY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GINGIVA DISEASE; HUMAN; LINGUAL NERVE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLAR TOOTH; NOCICEPTION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERIODONTITIS; PLACEBO EFFECT; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TOOTH EXTRACTION; TREATMENT DURATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WELLBEING;

ACUPUNCTURE ANALGESIA; EXPECTATION; NONSPECIFIC; PERCEPTION; PLACEBO ANALGESIA;

ACUPUNCTURE ANALGESIA; ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIDOCAINE; MALE; PAIN; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PAIN MEASUREMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOOTH, IMPACTED;

EID: 84881667798     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: 18726623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2013.05.008     Document Type: Article

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