ArticlesSystematic reviews of acupuncture — are there problems with these?
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2008, American Journal of Obstetrics and GynecologyCitation Excerpt :We included auricular acupuncture trials, but only if this was combined with body acupuncture, and intended to perform a separate analysis for such trials. We postulated that the neurohumoral mechanisms involved in these other therapies may differ from those involved in needle acupuncture; in addition, we noted that most experts would agree that acupuncture by definition involves insertion of needles into the skin.26,27 Two reviewers independently extracted data from eligible trials as defined above.
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