German study

[Guest guest]

Does anybody know what the link to the German study is?

Also a thought on intension. If the sham group did as well as the treatment

group, what about the significant of intension (yi).

Alon

 

 

[Guest guest]

Thank you Rich for the translation from the German. It is helpful to read a

more accurate version of the results than what were mentioned in the newspaper

article.

 

As an aside (I mean I'm not trying to explain away this particular study) I

can add something about 'lumbar pain' from my years as a dancer, choreographer,

Certified Movement Analyst, Registered Movement Therapist and my 14 years as

a hands-on practitioner/teacher of Body-Mind Centering® and Craniosacral

therapy. It is this: the root of 'lumbar pain' can come from just about any

source - poor skeletal alignment, torsion patterns in the organs, adhesions of

connective tissue, early developmental gaps (in relationship to gravity and

space), poor alignment of the head, closing down of the senses, imbalance of the

autonomic nervous system, misalignment of the jaw, digestive problems, kidney

problems, cancer, (etc. etc. etc.) in addition to local disc problems/nerve

compressions and local muscle/ligament strains and sprains. So to me it's not

surpr

ising that many, many acupuncture point prescriptions (and even sham

needling) might have a positive effect on lumbar pain.

 

-RoseAnne S.

[Guest guest]

, " richblit " <richblit@r...> wrote:

The end of this study is planned for october 2008 or

> earlier, if acupunture is earlier included as regular benefit of the

> statutory health insurance companies.

 

a four year reprieve.