Clinical acupuncture research in the West

2011, Volume 5, Issue 2

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Frontiers of Medicine >> 2011, Volume 5, Issue 2 doi: 10.1007/s11684-011-0135-9

Clinical acupuncture research in the West

1. Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, the Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200001, China; 2. Shanghai Municipal Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine affiliated with Shanghai TCM University, Shanghai 200071, China; 3. Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 520 West Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA

Available online: 2011-06-05

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Abstract

In recent years, acupuncture has rapidly become part of mainstream medicine in the West, where new developments in acupuncture clinical research show extensive progress in evaluating the efficacy and safety of the modality in many categories of disease, especially in pain conditions. Although challenges and difficulties remain, the acupuncture research community has matured and its past experience may lead to even better methods and more innovative research.

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acupuncture ; clinical research ; research methodology ; the West

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