Study: Acupuncture Works

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Study: Acupuncture Works

November 23, 2007 | ISSUE 43•47

A recent German study demonstrated that acupuncture, even fake acupuncture, worked better than conventional care to relieve chronic back pain. What do you think?

Whenever I stick needles in myself, I feel better. Of course, they are full of drugs.

Sasha Makepeace
Systems Analyst
Conventional care being the eight minutes of therapy after waiting four hours in a hard plastic chair? Yeah, how did that fail?

Doug May
Barber
Isn't all acupuncture 'fake acupuncture?'

Brad Cohn
Guitar Maker

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