howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Starting a weekly course tomorrow to help with chronic back pain, any experiences of this treatment?
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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prickly experience howard,
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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For God's sake Howard this is 2016. Of course it does not work. How could it possibly?
https://www.painscience.com/articles/acupuncture-for-pain.php
There's only two things which will 'cure' people of non psychological problems, drugs and knives (pharmacy or operations) and I really object to NHS money being wasted on superstitions.
http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2011/11/the-nhs-should-stop-wasting-money-on-homeopaths-and-homeopathic-hospitals-and-should-offer-placebo-pills-to-patients-requesting-homeopathic-treatments/"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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a rather biased comment capt.haddock.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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I may not get the chance to find out if it works on me. Just got back from the surgery and the physio said my condition had improved since he recommended the treatment a month ago. Been given some exercises to do but if things do not improve further then I can have acupuncture if I choose.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Brian. Merely on the side of scientific research and research through double blind tests.
No 'bias' because that's what statistics and science shows us. Doh!
End of. Not even worth discussing.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Paul M- Registered: 1 Feb 2016
- Posts: 393
Agreed. One of the biggest cons in recent history.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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There is scientific evidence and then again scientific evidence, take your choice.
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Acupuncture/Pages/Evidence.aspxBrian Dixon- Location: Dover
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it all depends on what scientific proof you belive in
Reginald Barrington
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It works for thousands of people, as do placebo pills they have even been shown to work when the patient is told its a placebo, might cost the nhs thousands but not as much as treatment through normal prescriptive medicine.
Arte et Marte
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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At the end of the day the NHS would not commission a treatment unless they were sure it was correct for some conditions, additionally my local surgery has decided that the treatment is for me and have allocated 6 sessions. Private acupuncturists charge £60 upwards per session.