Pirotta Marie
Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Aust Fam Physician. 2007 Jun;36(6):447-8.
Several surveys have identified that Australian general practitioners have largely accepted acupuncture as part of their armamentarium. About a quarter of GPs have been trained in acupuncture and the majority of those surveyed agreed that acupuncture was effective and that they had referred patients for the therapy. Acupuncture is an integral part of traditional Chinese medicine and has thousands of years of history of use. While acupuncture presents some challenges to test in randomised controlled trials, such as inadequate placebos and difficulty achieving blinding of both researchers and participants, many trials of increasingly high standard have been published; for example, the Cochrane Collaboration has over 120 reviews and protocols relating to acupuncture. This article presents some recent evidence about the use of acupuncture to treat musculoskeletal conditions.
多项调查表明，澳大利亚的全科医生大多已将针灸作为其医疗手段的一部分。约四分之一的全科医生接受过针灸培训，且大多数接受调查的医生认为针灸有效，并曾将患者转诊接受该疗法。针灸是传统中医的一个组成部分，已有数千年的使用历史。虽然针灸在随机对照试验中面临一些挑战，如安慰剂不足以及研究人员和参与者难以实现盲法，但已发表了许多标准越来越高的试验；例如，考克兰协作组织有120多篇关于针灸的综述和方案。本文介绍了一些关于使用针灸治疗肌肉骨骼疾病的最新证据。
