ZT:美军60万高薪招聘中医针灸师

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瞎扯谁不会,看我把他脸上胡须扯几根下来:monster:
那是鬼节的面具。把面具扯掉看看:光溜溜的,从没用过须刀的主儿。
 
方舟子从未全盘否定中医中药,更没有否定针灸的疗效。他一直说的是:中医理论不科学应该抛弃;中药疗效不可靠毒副作用不清楚,应该用现代科学手段检验。

看看他早在2006年发表的关于针灸的文章。摘录几句:
“尽管针灸的作用没有像当初宣传的那么奇妙,针灸的某些疗效,却是可以在西方医院重复出来的,”
“美国一项针对570名关节炎患者的研究表明,在使用药物治疗的同时,接受针灸治疗的病人,其缓解疼痛的效果明显好于接受假入针治疗的病人。”
“有许多实验表明,针灸能够刺激神经系统分泌内啡肽,这是一种化学结构与吗啡类似的神经肽,有强烈的麻醉、镇痛作用。”
“针灸还有许多谜团有待破解,但是有两点已比较清楚:针灸很可能对治疗某些疾病,特别是对镇痛,有一定的效果,但是不像传说的那么神奇,穴位也不那么重要;针灸是通过神经系统发挥作用,而不是通过其他未知系统发挥作用。”


向方舟子学习学习,有一说一,就事论是。

http://scitech.people.com.cn/GB/1057/4247897.html
令人困惑的针灸
方舟子
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2006年03月29日

  1971年7月,美国国务卿基辛格访华为中美关系的解冻做准备。随团采访的《纽约时报》专栏作家詹姆斯·雷斯顿得了急性阑尾炎,经药物麻醉后做了阑尾切除手术。术后第二天,他又接受了20分钟的针灸治疗缓解疼痛,据其自述效果非常好。

  这种奇特的疗法让基辛格大感兴趣,在全世界瞩目的新闻发布会上特地提及此事。雷斯顿在7月26日的《纽约时报》上撰文介绍他的这段奇遇。这个故事被辗转叙述,传成了雷斯顿靠针灸麻醉做了手术。

  随着尼克松访华蜂拥而至的西方记者、学者、医生们都想亲睹针灸麻醉的奇观。在针灸麻醉下做开膛剖腹的手术在当时成了向西方世界展示中国医疗革命的政治表演。意大利导演安东尼奥尼在1972年拍摄的纪录片《中国》中,甚至记录了通过针灸麻醉对一位产妇实施剖腹产手术的全过程。

  这股国际针灸热虽然只持续了几年,却帮助针灸这种古老的东方医术作为一种补充疗法在西方民间站稳了脚跟。但对大多数西方医生来说,他们所受到的专业训练使他们不会轻信一种神奇的疗法,首先会怀疑其中是否有诈。这种怀疑并非毫无道理。我大学时代的一个老师当时也参加了针灸麻醉的示范,据她说,在示范之前会预先挑选那些比较能接受心理暗示、忍受疼痛的病人,而且叮嘱他们在手术过程中务必要有坚强的革命意志,不要喊疼。

  尽管针灸的作用没有像当初宣传的那么奇妙,针灸的某些疗效,却是可以在西方医院重复出来的,显然不能简单地归为欺诈。即便如此,一个受过现代医学训练的人,仍然有充分的理由怀疑其实际疗效。

  现代医学最重大的发现之一,是知道许多病人的病情,可以不经治疗或经过假治疗获得好转甚至痊愈。因此,要确定一种疗法的疗效,必须进行随机的、有对照的、双盲的临床试验:把病人随机地分成两组,一组进行治疗,一组进行假治疗,而病人和医生都不知道谁属于哪一组,最后再比较两组的疗效。

  但是要对针灸进行双盲试验却难以做到。试验新药时,可以让对照组病人吃在外观上和新药相同的假药以瞒过病人和医生,但是要让病人不知道他们是否在接受针灸治疗却不容易。一种解决办法是使用“假入针”,在不让病人看到的情况下只让针接触皮肤而没有扎入,另一种做法是“假扎穴”,故意把针扎偏(不扎在穴位上)。但是这些做法都无法瞒过扎针的医生,只能做到单盲。而且,在针灸时,往往要通过询问病人是否有酸麻胀痛的“得气”之感,才能确定是否扎准穴位。这种必须的相互交流使得要进行双盲试验更加困难。

  因此,很难像验证新药那样严格地验证针灸的疗效,使得不同的临床试验会得出不同的结论。其中研究得最多的是针灸的镇痛效果。例如,美国一项针对570名关节炎患者的研究表明,在使用药物治疗的同时,接受针灸治疗的病人,其缓解疼痛的效果明显好于接受假入针治疗的病人。但是,德国两项分别针对300余名和900多名偏头痛患者的研究却表明,针灸和假扎穴的镇痛效果一样好,与使用镇痛药一样有效,但和是否扎对了穴位没有关系。

  有许多实验表明,针灸能够刺激神经系统分泌内啡肽,这是一种化学结构与吗啡类似的神经肽,有强烈的麻醉、镇痛作用。如果往动物体内注射内啡肽抑制剂,再对动物进行针灸就起不到镇痛的作用。内啡肽还有调节心血管的功能,这可以解释为何针灸对治疗某些心血管疾病似乎也有疗效。

  我们现在有办法直接观察到大脑的活动状态,因此可以实时观察针灸的效果。英国一项研究表明,针灸、假入针(病人不知情)和不入针(病人知情)都能使关节炎病人大脑中与内啡肽有关的部位变得活跃,但是在接受针灸治疗的病人中,大脑还有一个被称为脑岛的部位变得活跃。遗憾的是这个实验没有试验假扎穴的情况,目前也不清楚脑岛与镇痛会有什么关系。

  针灸还有许多谜团有待破解,但是有两点已比较清楚:针灸很可能对治疗某些疾病,特别是对镇痛,有一定的效果,但是不像传说的那么神奇,穴位也不那么重要;针灸是通过神经系统发挥作用,而不是通过其他未知系统发挥作用。

来源:人民网 (责任编辑:马丽)
 
如果你每天脖子痛;并且,每天晚上只拉尿,保证不干其它事;然后,每一个第二天,脖子都不痛了。那么,是的,拉尿能治好您的脖子痛,虽然仍不能确定其病因。-------------- 统计学是一门科学。:)


那个说穴位治好脚后跟的用了统计学么?
你应该跟他去说。
 
我有过一次针灸的经历。
其实我是陪家人去的。
那个医生说,反正你来了, 扎几针吧。
有病治病,无病健身。

我出于好奇, 就试了。
忘记部位了, 那针扎进去然后转动,
一阵麻飕飕的感觉传遍全身。
是挺神奇的。
没吸过大麻, 估计那感觉应该是相似的。
 
那个说穴位治好脚后跟的用了统计学么?
你应该跟他去说。

他们就是同一个人啊。
 
我有过一次针灸的经历。
其实我是陪家人去的。
那个医生说,反正你来了, 扎几针吧。
有病治病,无病健身。

我出于好奇, 就试了。
忘记部位了, 那针扎进去然后转动,
一阵麻飕飕的感觉传遍全身。
是挺神奇的。
没吸过大麻, 估计那感觉应该是相似的。


没事扎针玩,你们家人竟然也同意?:confused: 你那时候多大?被虐待儿童啊。
 
我有过一次针灸的经历。
其实我是陪家人去的。
那个医生说,反正你来了, 扎几针吧。
有病治病,无病健身。

我出于好奇, 就试了。
忘记部位了, 那针扎进去然后转动,
一阵麻飕飕的感觉传遍全身。
是挺神奇的。
没吸过大麻, 估计那感觉应该是相似的。
当初可能把你给扎:shale::p
 
当初可能把你给扎:shale::p


她要扎我的脑袋, 我没同意。
我看见她扎别的人, 从脑袋的最顶端, 扎下去大约3公分。
这要是把神经细胞扎坏了, 估计病也好了。
真傻就不知道啥是病了。
 
方舟子从未全盘否定中医中药,更没有否定针灸的疗效。他一直说的是:中医理论不科学应该抛弃;中药疗效不可靠毒副作用不清楚,应该用现代科学手段检验。

看看他早在2006年发表的关于针灸的文章。摘录几句:
“尽管针灸的作用没有像当初宣传的那么奇妙,针灸的某些疗效,却是可以在西方医院重复出来的,”
“美国一项针对570名关节炎患者的研究表明,在使用药物治疗的同时,接受针灸治疗的病人,其缓解疼痛的效果明显好于接受假入针治疗的病人。”
“有许多实验表明,针灸能够刺激神经系统分泌内啡肽,这是一种化学结构与吗啡类似的神经肽,有强烈的麻醉、镇痛作用。”
“针灸还有许多谜团有待破解,但是有两点已比较清楚:针灸很可能对治疗某些疾病,特别是对镇痛,有一定的效果,但是不像传说的那么神奇,穴位也不那么重要;针灸是通过神经系统发挥作用,而不是通过其他未知系统发挥作用。”


向方舟子学习学习,有一说一,就事论是。

http://scitech.people.com.cn/GB/1057/4247897.html
令人困惑的针灸
方舟子
spacer.gif

2006年03月29日

  1971年7月,美国国务卿基辛格访华为中美关系的解冻做准备。随团采访的《纽约时报》专栏作家詹姆斯·雷斯顿得了急性阑尾炎,经药物麻醉后做了阑尾切除手术。术后第二天,他又接受了20分钟的针灸治疗缓解疼痛,据其自述效果非常好。

  这种奇特的疗法让基辛格大感兴趣,在全世界瞩目的新闻发布会上特地提及此事。雷斯顿在7月26日的《纽约时报》上撰文介绍他的这段奇遇。这个故事被辗转叙述,传成了雷斯顿靠针灸麻醉做了手术。

  随着尼克松访华蜂拥而至的西方记者、学者、医生们都想亲睹针灸麻醉的奇观。在针灸麻醉下做开膛剖腹的手术在当时成了向西方世界展示中国医疗革命的政治表演。意大利导演安东尼奥尼在1972年拍摄的纪录片《中国》中,甚至记录了通过针灸麻醉对一位产妇实施剖腹产手术的全过程。

  这股国际针灸热虽然只持续了几年,却帮助针灸这种古老的东方医术作为一种补充疗法在西方民间站稳了脚跟。但对大多数西方医生来说,他们所受到的专业训练使他们不会轻信一种神奇的疗法,首先会怀疑其中是否有诈。这种怀疑并非毫无道理。我大学时代的一个老师当时也参加了针灸麻醉的示范,据她说,在示范之前会预先挑选那些比较能接受心理暗示、忍受疼痛的病人,而且叮嘱他们在手术过程中务必要有坚强的革命意志,不要喊疼。

  尽管针灸的作用没有像当初宣传的那么奇妙,针灸的某些疗效,却是可以在西方医院重复出来的,显然不能简单地归为欺诈。即便如此,一个受过现代医学训练的人,仍然有充分的理由怀疑其实际疗效。

  现代医学最重大的发现之一,是知道许多病人的病情,可以不经治疗或经过假治疗获得好转甚至痊愈。因此,要确定一种疗法的疗效,必须进行随机的、有对照的、双盲的临床试验:把病人随机地分成两组,一组进行治疗,一组进行假治疗,而病人和医生都不知道谁属于哪一组,最后再比较两组的疗效。

  但是要对针灸进行双盲试验却难以做到。试验新药时,可以让对照组病人吃在外观上和新药相同的假药以瞒过病人和医生,但是要让病人不知道他们是否在接受针灸治疗却不容易。一种解决办法是使用“假入针”,在不让病人看到的情况下只让针接触皮肤而没有扎入,另一种做法是“假扎穴”,故意把针扎偏(不扎在穴位上)。但是这些做法都无法瞒过扎针的医生,只能做到单盲。而且,在针灸时,往往要通过询问病人是否有酸麻胀痛的“得气”之感,才能确定是否扎准穴位。这种必须的相互交流使得要进行双盲试验更加困难。

  因此,很难像验证新药那样严格地验证针灸的疗效,使得不同的临床试验会得出不同的结论。其中研究得最多的是针灸的镇痛效果。例如,美国一项针对570名关节炎患者的研究表明,在使用药物治疗的同时,接受针灸治疗的病人,其缓解疼痛的效果明显好于接受假入针治疗的病人。但是,德国两项分别针对300余名和900多名偏头痛患者的研究却表明,针灸和假扎穴的镇痛效果一样好,与使用镇痛药一样有效,但和是否扎对了穴位没有关系。

  有许多实验表明,针灸能够刺激神经系统分泌内啡肽,这是一种化学结构与吗啡类似的神经肽,有强烈的麻醉、镇痛作用。如果往动物体内注射内啡肽抑制剂,再对动物进行针灸就起不到镇痛的作用。内啡肽还有调节心血管的功能,这可以解释为何针灸对治疗某些心血管疾病似乎也有疗效。

  我们现在有办法直接观察到大脑的活动状态,因此可以实时观察针灸的效果。英国一项研究表明,针灸、假入针(病人不知情)和不入针(病人知情)都能使关节炎病人大脑中与内啡肽有关的部位变得活跃,但是在接受针灸治疗的病人中,大脑还有一个被称为脑岛的部位变得活跃。遗憾的是这个实验没有试验假扎穴的情况,目前也不清楚脑岛与镇痛会有什么关系。

  针灸还有许多谜团有待破解,但是有两点已比较清楚:针灸很可能对治疗某些疾病,特别是对镇痛,有一定的效果,但是不像传说的那么神奇,穴位也不那么重要;针灸是通过神经系统发挥作用,而不是通过其他未知系统发挥作用。

来源:人民网 (责任编辑:马丽)
支持!
其实国内很早就开始了针灸治病的实验。在基本上都失败的情况时,发现了针灸麻醉对一些人的有一些疗效。当时国内投入了大量人力物力,不亚于箐蒿素的研究。针灸麻醉要成为外科手术的主要麻醉手段,开颅,心脏手术。可结果呢,针灸麻醉根本就不能完成这样的大手术(有极个别的例子,但都是不可重复)。所以现在国内也没有医院在提手术时针灸麻醉了。
 
Military turns to acupuncture as alternative to prescription painkillers

By Jennifer H. Svan
Stars and Stripes
Published: August 27, 2010


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Dr. (Maj.) Ronald White, director of pain services at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, applies an acupuncture needle on Master Sgt. Jamie Gilmore. Gilmore receives the treatment regularly for a bulging disk and other back pain.
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Lt. Col. Dan Ferris has taken some ribbing for what he calls “the bling in my ears.”

But the 44-year-old Air Force pilot doesn’t mind: What appear to be post earrings are actually tiny acupuncture needles, which Ferris said have helped ease his chronic lower back pain, allowing him to keep up a relentless flying schedule during six months in Afghanistan. He can’t pop painkillers, because fliers are limited to certain drugs and doses.

“Acupuncture helps with the pain, to the point of removing it,” Ferris said recently from Kandahar Air Field. “What else can you ask for when you have an injury? For me, it’s better than drugs.”

The military is finding that Western medicine alone doesn’t always work in relieving the suffering of troops dealing with a complex range of injuries after nine years of war, from multiple concussions to backs strained under heavy packs and body armor.

As the number of prescriptions for opiate painkillers skyrockets — and more troops admit abusing those drugs — the military has been forced to look beyond conventional ways to treat pain.

“This is a nationwide problem,” said Brig. Gen. Richard Thomas, assistant Army surgeon general. “We’ve got a culture of a pill for every ill.”

In June, the Army surgeon general released a report addressing the lack of a comprehensive pain-management strategy, suggesting alternative treatments including meditation and yoga.

Even though some in the medical field maintain that acupuncture has never been proved effective, the Air Force sees it as one of the more promising alternatives to combat pain.

The service runs the military’s only full-time acupuncture clinic at Malcolm Grow Medical Center at Joint Base Andrews, Md. Last year, it launched a program to train more than 30 military doctors to use acupuncture in the war zone and at their base clinics. The program will be expanded next year with the Air Force, Army and Navy combining funds for two courses to certify 60 active-duty physicians as medical acupuncturists.

“I think we realized with some of the tremendous injuries these folks have ... we certainly want to find an alternative to help them out, to eliminate or reduce their use of pain medication,” said Col. Dominic DeFrancis, medical corps director for the Air Force Surgeon General.

Acupuncture, he says, has few side effects and no apparent drug interactions, and it works quickly — allowing some troops with pain to return to duty faster.

“This is an effective therapy that works and should be part of our physicians’ capabilities,” DeFrancis said.

Needles for the battlefield

The Air Force training, run in conjunction with the Helms Medical Institute of Berkeley, Calif., teaches military physicians a variety of acupuncture techniques, from traditional Chinese to Korean hand acupuncture. Clinicians also are learning a type of acupuncture developed in 2001 by an Air Force doctor that’s being used in frontline hospitals and could be applied, Air Force officials say, right on the battlefield.

“The whole idea of the battlefield concept was trying to develop an acupuncture technique that would be generic for all pain and that would be very rapid in terms of its effectiveness,” said Dr. Richard Niemtzow, a retired Air Force colonel who modified the method from French auricular acupuncture needles and the results of MRI studies on pain.

Small needles are placed in up to five pain-control points in each ear, and they stay for three or more days before falling out.

The sterilized needles are small enough to carry in a pocket, easily fit under a military helmet, and the technique is simple to apply, said Niemtzow, who’s one of two full-time Air Force acupuncturists.

In the right combat situation, he says, acupuncture could replace a narcotic.

Lt. Col. Timothy Kaczmar uses battlefield acupuncture and more traditional acupuncture with bigger needles to treat patients at Kandahar Air Field’s Air Force medical clinic. A flight surgeon at the Air Force Academy, Kaczmar completed an Air Force-sponsored acupuncture course last year.

‘It’s been a wonderful tool to have as a doctor here,” he said.

He most commonly sees patients with back pain, headaches, sleep disturbances and anxiety. High doses of painkillers aren’t a great option in combat, Kaczmar said.

“We’re out here getting rocketed,” he said. “You don’t want to give them medication to the point where they’re groggy.”

Kaczmar successfully treated Senior Airman Emilie Johnston, 24, a medical technician from Vermont, who was struggling with almost daily headaches.

“A couple days ago, I had a headache coming on to where my vision was getting blurry,” she said recently from Kandahar. “Dr. Kaczmar did ear acupuncture on me. In 15 minutes, my headache was gone. I haven’t gotten a headache since then.”

Master Sgt. Jamie Gilmore has tried physical therapy, muscle relaxers, steroid injections and chiropractor visits to address the chronic pain of a bulging back disc.

On a recent summer day, she dropped into the pain center at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, where Dr. Ron White used the Niemtzow technique, pricking both of her ears a millimeter deep with two needles, each gold, silver and platinum.

The first needles didn’t bring immediate relief, but after undergoing acupuncture every two weeks for about a year, the pain is tolerable. Gilmore, 44, has been able to resume running, CrossFit training and other physical activities. Most importantly for her, she said, “I’ve been able to cut back almost completely on prescription medication.”

Placebo effect?


Acupuncture also has its skeptics.

Steven Salzberg, a professor and director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, says acupuncture is “a joke to any serious scientist: There’s absolutely no evidence that it works.”

If it has any effect at all, Salzberg said, it’s a placebo effect.

“People want to believe it works,” he said.

Dr. Harriet Hall, a retired family physician and former Air Force flight surgeon, also charges that acupuncture is “nothing but an elaborate placebo.”

“I hope no would consider giving a man wounded on the battlefield a sugar pill instead of morphine,” she said. “Our soldiers deserve better.”

But Alexandra York, a research associate in military medical research at the Samueli Institute in Alexandria, Va., which studies alternative therapies, said “to just kind of boil it down to a psychological effect doesn’t dig deep enough to what is really going on when acupuncture is administered.

“A number of MRI studies have shown the effect of acupuncture is really at the brain level.”

Dr. Stephen Burns, a retired Air Force colonel and full-time Air Force acupuncturist, says the results speak for themselves.

“We’ve treated thousands and thousands of patients here with excellent results,” said Burns, referring to his work with Niemtzow at the 779th Medical Group’s acupuncture clinic at Malcolm Grow.

Each week, he and Niemtzow treat troops with blast wounds, missing limbs, concussions and other injuries at nearby Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

“Sometimes it’s a little like peeling back the onion,” Burns said. By easing their pain little by little, “We give them hope, then they go have a good night, a good weekend, and come back and we treat them again, while not giving them medication that could cloud their thinking.”

White, an Army major and director of LRMC’s pain center, said acupuncture isn’t a cure-all for everyone. For about one-third of his patients, it’s a “home run” and their pain goes away completely. With another third, the pain diminishes but doesn’t disappear. And for a third, he says, “you strike out” — they feel no change.

As Niemtzow emphasizes, “It’s not a magic bullet. Patients may find themselves being able to enjoy pain-free periods or reduced-pain periods, or combined with medication, a better lifestyle.”

The science behind how acupuncture works is not fully understood, experts say. One theory, White said, is that acupuncture taps into nerve pathways to the brain. With the reception of dual pain and acupuncture signals, the brain’s information processing gets muddled and pain is disrupted or dulled.

White prefers to focus instead on the results.

“There’s no risk; it gives you benefit,” White said. “Our goal — my end result — is function. If you come to me complaining that you can’t play with your kids, you can’t sleep at night, you can’t work, and six months later, I have you playing, sleeping and back to work, I don’t care if it’s placebo.”

“If it has any effect at all, Salzberg said, it’s a placebo effect.“
这句话有一些道理。针灸的安慰作用占很重要的地位。
其实承认针灸的减痛作用并不等于承认中医的经脉理论。了解中医的人都知道中医的针灸的基础是经脉论。没有经脉论的针灸只是减痛的方法,可能和头痛是用手按压头或用冰敷是一样的(都可分散注意力,从而减痛)。
 
支持!
其实国内很早就开始了针灸治病的实验。在基本上都失败的情况时,发现了针灸麻醉对一些人的有一些疗效。当时国内投入了大量人力物力,不亚于箐蒿素的研究。针灸麻醉要成为外科手术的主要麻醉手段,开颅,心脏手术。可结果呢,针灸麻醉根本就不能完成这样的大手术(有极个别的例子,但都是不可重复)。所以现在国内也没有医院在提手术时针灸麻醉了。
那叫针刺麻醉:p
还有个电影叫无影灯下颂银针,我小时候住北京中医医院,在大院里看的。
 
那叫针刺麻醉:p
还有个电影叫无影灯下颂银针,我小时候住北京中医医院,在大院里看的。
渥太华这莫多华人,这里有没有用针刺麻醉做过任何手术的呢?咱电影不算行吗?:p
 
“If it has any effect at all, Salzberg said, it’s a placebo effect.“
这句话有一些道理。针灸的安慰作用占很重要的地位。
其实承认针灸的减痛作用并不等于承认中医的经脉理论。了解中医的人都知道中医的针灸的基础是经脉论。没有经脉论的针灸只是减痛的方法,可能和头痛是用手按压头或用冰敷是一样的(都可分散注意力,从而减痛)。

你怎么不多读几句,就只挑这句话出来说呢?我可以轻易就在同一篇报道里找到跟这句话不同看法的,比如:
But Alexandra York, a research associate in military medical research at the Samueli Institute in Alexandria, Va., which studies alternative therapies, said “to just kind of boil it down to a psychological effect doesn’t dig deep enough to what is really going on when acupuncture is administered.

“A number of MRI studies have shown the effect of acupuncture is really at the brain level.”

Dr. Stephen Burns, a retired Air Force colonel and full-time Air Force acupuncturist, says the results speak for themselves.

“We’ve treated thousands and thousands of patients here with excellent results,” said Burns, referring to his work with Niemtzow at the 779th Medical Group’s acupuncture clinic at Malcolm Grow.

Each week, he and Niemtzow treat troops with blast wounds, missing limbs, concussions and other injuries at nearby Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

“Sometimes it’s a little like peeling back the onion,” Burns said. By easing their pain little by little, “We give them hope, then they go have a good night, a good weekend, and come back and we treat them again, while not giving them medication that could cloud their thinking.”

White, an Army major and director of LRMC’s pain center, said acupuncture isn’t a cure-all for everyone. For about one-third of his patients, it’s a “home run” and their pain goes away completely. With another third, the pain diminishes but doesn’t disappear. And for a third, he says, “you strike out” — they feel no change.

As Niemtzow emphasizes, “It’s not a magic bullet. Patients may find themselves being able to enjoy pain-free periods or reduced-pain periods, or combined with medication, a better lifestyle.”

The science behind how acupuncture works is not fully understood, experts say. One theory, White said, is that acupuncture taps into nerve pathways to the brain. With the reception of dual pain and acupuncture signals, the brain’s information processing gets muddled and pain is disrupted or dulled.

White prefers to focus instead on the results.

“There’s no risk; it gives you benefit,” White said. “Our goal — my end result — is function. If you come to me complaining that you can’t play with your kids, you can’t sleep at night, you can’t work, and six months later, I have you playing, sleeping and back to work, I don’t care if it’s placebo.”
 
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