A double-blind placebo needle for acupuncture research
Open Access
- 10 October 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- Vol. 7 (1), 31
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6882-7-31
Abstract
Placebo needles that can mask acupuncture practitioners to the type of needle used have been considered almost impossible to develop until now.Keywords
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