Abstract: . . .  663-694. 6. Agarwal A, Dhiraaj S, Tandon M, Singh PK, Singh U, Pawar S: Evaluation of capsaicin ointment at the Korean hand acupressure point K-D2 for prevention of postoperative nausea and vomiting. Anaesthesia 2005, 60: 1185-1188. 7. Ahn AC, Wu J, Badger GJ, Hammerschlag R, Langevin HM: Electrical impedance along connective tissue planes associated with acupuncture meridians. BMC Complement Altern Med 2005, 5: 10. 8. Alkaissi A, Ledin T, Odkvist LM, Kalman S: P6 acupressure increases tolerance to nauseogenic motion stimulation in women at high risk for PONV. Can J Anaesth 2005, 52: 703-709. 9. Assefi NP, Sherman KJ, Jacobsen C, Goldberg J, Smith WR, Buchwald D: A randomized clinical trial of acupuncture compared with sham acupuncture in fibromyalgia. . . .
. . .  Institutes of Health[16,19,44,76],especially NCCAM [7,9,10,32,33,38,43,47] andfrom Germannational insurance providers [46,52,54,81].NIH-fundedtrials were no more likely tohave a rationale thanother studies.Seventeenstudies were publishedin three journals of acupuncture or Chinese medicine [12,14,22,25,28,34-36,39,49- 51,61,67,75,82,83] andeight were publishedin2journals of complementary/ alternative medicine [7,32,33,41,47,60,70,73]; the remaining 54were publishedin47medical Page 12 11 journals.Having a rationale was not associatedwithcountry,funding source or journal type. Discussion Seventy-nine acupuncture clinical trials reports were reviewedand53(67%) hadsome rationale for the use of acupuncture.The study interventions stimulatedpoints using . . .
. . .  marked “clinical trials” (n=597). Acupuncture “clinical trials” in “2005” in English (n=93) Excluded non-English (6 Chinese, 1 German, 1 Korean) (n=8) Excluded articles with early e- pub date in 2005 but actually published in 2006 (n=5) Obtain and review articles to establish inclusion (n=88) Excluded 6 articles which were not acupuncture clinical trial reports, 2 letters and one brief report (n=9). Articles for systematic review (n=79) Figure 1  . . .
. . .  electrical stimulation on the minimum alveolar concentration of isoflurane in dogs. Am J Vet Res 2005, 66: 1364-1370. 22. da Silva JB, Nakamura MU, Cordeiro JA, Kulay LJ: Acupuncture for insomnia in pregnancy--a prospective, quasi-randomised, controlled study. Acupunct Med 2005, 23: 47-51. 23. Davis KG, Kotowski SE: Preliminary evidence of the short-term effectiveness of alternative treatments for low back pain. Technol Health Care 2005, 13: 453-462. 24. Downs NM, Kirk K, MacSween A: The effect of real and sham acupuncture on thermal sensation and thermal pain thresholds. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2005, 86: 1252-1257. 25. Ebneshahidi NS, Heshmatipour M, Moghaddami A, Eghtesadi-Araghi P: The effects of laser acupuncture on chronic tension headache--a . . .
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