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Acupuncture and Knee Osteoarthritis
- Brian Berman, MD;
- Adele M.K. Gilpin, PhD, JD; and
- Lixing Lao, PhD, LAc
- From University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21207.
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Dr. Baker stated that insertion of 2 abdominal needles in the sham procedure might have triggered a diffuse noxious inhibitory control mechanism, causing a positive response in the sham group above that for inert placebo. If this did occur, the specific effect size of true …
