Acupuncture helps with pain in the knee

Acupuncture practically does not no effect for chronic pain in the knee. That is the conclusion drawn by researchers from the University of Melbourne in Australia.

Pain in the knee

Acupuncture   It is widely used to assist patients experiencing knee pain . It is believed that this procedure from the arsenal of alternative medicine can help people reduce dose, if not refuse painkillers. The Australian the researchers decided to test the validity of this statement.

They are attracted to the experiment a group of people over 50 suffer from pains in the knee   - Moderate to strong. In total, the procedure Acupuncture   were 300 people, which are divided into three groups. The first includes traditional acupuncture, in a second laser, and the third - "psevdolazernuyu" that is in fact not We have done nothing to check the effect of a placebo. It is natural that people from the third the group did not know this and thought that they, too, are treated.

As a result, it was found that the effectiveness of the use of "psevdolazernoy" acupuncture exactly is the same as the conventional acupuncture. This means that this method does not give no effect and is effective only when the person It reduces the level of pain simply by auto-suggestion. Acupuncture sessions conducted for three months, twice a week.

After completion of treatment, the health status of their patients of all three groups remained the same - any significant improvement, there was not one person. These studies are published zhurnalomJournal of the American Medical Association. (READ MORE)

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