On defining acupuncture and its techniques: A commentary on the problem of sham

Integr Med Res. 2022 Jun;11(2):100834. doi: 10.1016/j.imr.2022.100834. Epub 2022 Jan 8.

Stephen Birch¹, Myeong Soo Lee², Tae-Hun Kim³, Terje Alraek^{1

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¹ School of Health Sciences, Kristiania University College, Oslo, Norway.
² Division of Clinical Medicine, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine, Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
³ Korean Medicine Clinical Trial Center, Korean Medicine Hospital, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
⁴ Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, National Research Center in Complementary and Alternative Medicine, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromso, Norway.

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Keywords: Acupuncture; Clinical trials; Inserted needling; Non-inserted needling; Sham acupuncture.