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Letters |16 January 2007

Acupuncture and Knee Osteoarthritis

Norbert Victor, PhD; Steffen Witte, PhD; Konrad Streitberger, MD

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  • From University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.

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We thank Dr. Pijak and Dr. Muramatsu for their comments and for discussing different possibilities to explain our results. In our paper, we mentioned the following possible reasons for the observed efficacy of acupuncture: effects of needling, more intensive provider interaction, and differences in expectation (placebo effect in the strict sense). Like Dr. Pijak, we do not assume that the superiority of acupuncture can be ascribed entirely to a placebo effect, but we assume that all 3 reasons contribute to the observed effect. We agree that more intensive TCA schemes and less invasive sham acupuncture schemes exist as...
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Victor N, Witte S, Streitberger K. Acupuncture and Knee Osteoarthritis. Ann Intern Med. 2007;146:148–149. doi: https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-146-2-200701160-00015

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 2007;146(2):148-149.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-146-2-200701160-00015

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