ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2011
Placebo analgesia, acupuncture and sham surgery.
Article in Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
- Guideline
- Acupuncture for chronic pain: individual patient data meta-analysis.Archives of internal medicine · 2012Pooled it
- How large are the nonspecific effects of acupuncture? A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.BMC medicine · 2010Pooled it
- Interaction of acupuncture treatment and manipulation laterality modulated by the default mode network.Molecular pain · 2017Trial
- Thyroidectomy for Euthyroid Patients with Hashimoto Disease and Persistent Symptoms: An Observational, Postrandomization Study.Journal of thyroid research · 2024Article
- Patients' perceptions on non-specific effects of acupuncture: Qualitative comparison between responders and non-responders.Integrative medicine research · 2022Article
- Course of Preexisting Migraine Following Spontaneous Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
- Retrospective Study on Ganglionic and Nerve Block Series as Therapeutic Option for Chronic Pain Patients with Refractory Neuropathic Pain.Pain research & management · 2020Article
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Authors and funding
2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
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Abstract
Invasive procedures, such as surgery and acupuncture, are likely better than the others in terms of eliciting placebo analgesia. Understanding how invasive procedures can elicit enhanced placebo responses may provide new insights into mechanisms underlying placebo analgesia. In this essay, it is argued that sensory, cognitive and emotional factors are major determinants of the magnitude of placebo analgesia. Sham surgery and acupuncture are good examples of placebo interventions, which generate robust placebo responses through simultaneously manipulating such three factors.
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