Even “Fake” Acupuncture beats Western Medicine in Headache Treatments
Monday, March 9th, 2009Dr. Mark Kestner, an insightful Practitioner in Tennessee, hits the proverbial home run with this March 8th article in the Murfreesboro Post:
A friend sent me a news story the other day. The headline read: Real and Fake Acupuncture More Effective than Drugs for Chronic Headaches. The article detailed how acupuncture has been shown to be more effective than medication in relieving chronic headaches.
Since I have been using acupuncture for over a decade and have seen many remarkable responses, this did not surprise me. There are many similar studies that show acupuncture is effective for pain in the neck, back, knees, shoulders, wrists and other places. There are also studies showing benefits for many other conditions.
The interesting point to me in the story was that the “fake acupuncture” was also more effective than the drugs. I wondered what the researchers were calling fake acupuncture. That’s one of the difficulties in trying to research something like acupuncture; it is nearly impossible to have a placebo group as part of the study. (more…)
