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Acupuncture Ineffective, Attention Effective?—Reply
Heinz G. Endres, MD;
Albrecht Molsberger, PhD, MD;
Michael Haake, PhD, MD
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Ernst rightly emphasizes that personal contact between the patient and the physician and a manual therapy personally carried out by the physician produce a pronounced therapy-supportive effect on patients (as an added placebo effect). For that reason, all the German Acupuncture Trials used an equal length of treatment and attention to patients in the 2 acupuncture arms. The mean treatment duration in our chronic low back pain study1 was 30.5 minutes in all 3 therapy groups. The presence of the physician, however, was restricted in the 2 acupuncture groups to the time required to insert the needles (mean time, 8 minutes). The patient spent the remaining 20 minutes lying undisturbed on a bed in a separate room. In contrast to this, the physiotherapist in the standard therapy group often spent the full 30 minutes with the . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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