《美国医学会杂志》2014年10月发表了题为“针灸治疗慢性膝关节疼痛:随机临床试验”的文章,介绍了澳大利亚博士拉纳·欣曼领导的一个14人工作小组进行的一次与针灸有关的实验,其结论是:“对于50岁以上患有中度或重度膝关节慢性疼痛的患者,同假治疗相比,激光针灸或针刺针灸治疗对改善疼痛或功能没有益处。我们的研究发现不支持对这些病人使用针灸治疗"。
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这项研究成果出来,引起舆论一片哗然。有一些针灸师和研究者去函对该研究结果表示异议,在网上也引起了广大网民的关注。来自美国、中国、新西兰、瑞士和德国的五位学者,从不同角度对针灸治疗膝关节疼痛无效的结论提出疑问。认为论文在试验设计、针灸方法和计量、患者观察和评估、数据比较和结论、以及学术诚信等存在诸多方面的问题。杂志同时刊登了澳大利亚作者拉纳·欣曼等人的回复,对信中提出的大部分问题做了回答。
为了了解这篇文章的观点,我试图去《美国医学会杂志》去看一下这篇文章。到网站上看到的是这篇文章的提要,而全文需要购买。我点进去一看,购买这篇文章要30美元。我觉得购买这篇文章就没有必要了,只是把提要阅读了一下。根据阅读这篇提要发表一下自己的看法。
(1)从提要看出的问题。光看这个提要,我们 就可以看出一些问题。
physician acupuncturists”,这是他们故意混淆的一个表述,直译是“家庭医生针灸师”.看起来是“针灸师”,但实际是“会点针灸的家庭医生”。因为就.没有一个“家庭医生针灸师”.这样的头衔。在澳大利亚,要么就是家庭医生,要么就是针灸师。只不过家庭医生不管是会不会针灸技术都有使用针灸的权利。而针灸师治疗技术再好是不能开药方的。这就是西方国家对西医西生垄断地位的保护。这是一个不是谁都想进来的高薪行业。
第一个问题的家庭医生真的懂针灸技术吗?
我们知道,针灸是否有效和针灸师的水平是直接相关的。去找一个不懂针灸技术的人来操作不是太看不起我们老祖先流传下来的上千年的治疗技术。在参加操作实验的这些家庭医生里,有几个的针灸技术是过关的呢?有多少的针灸临床经验呢?有多少中医,针灸的理论知识呢?大家知道,西方国家的西医都是金饭碗,当上了医生都忙得很,五分钟看一个病人。哪还有这个闲工夫去给病人用针灸治疗。家庭医生用针灸给病人治疗,你等着吧!那用这些既没有受过针灸教育,又没有针灸临床经验,更没有针灸技术的家庭医生来操作这样的实验是否荒唐?所以,实验的操作人员是真家庭医生,假针灸师。
在下一篇,我将结合我的临床经验给大家介绍一下针灸治疗膝关节痛的理论和实践。
PhD3; Ian Relf, MSc3; Andrew Forbes, PhD4; Kay M. Crossley, PhD5; Elizabeth
Williamson, PhD6,7; Mary Kyriakides, BAppSc3; Kitty Novy, BNurs3; Ben R.
Metcalf, BSc1; Anthony Harris, MSc8; Prasuna Reddy, PhD9; Philip G. Conaghan,
PhD10; Kim L. Bennell, PhD1
CONCLUSIONS | ARTICLE INFORMATION | REFERENCES
Importance There is
debate about benefits of acupuncture for knee pain.
Objective To
determine the efficacy of laser and needle acupuncture for chronic knee pain.
Design, Setting, and Participants Zelen-design clinical trial (randomization
occurred before informed consent), in Victoria, Australia (February
2010-December 2012). Community volunteers (282 patients aged ≥50
years with chronic knee pain) were treated by family physician acupuncturists.
Interventions No
acupuncture (control group, n = 71) and needle (n = 70), laser (n = 71), and
sham laser (n = 70) acupuncture. Treatments were delivered for 12 weeks.
Participants and acupuncturists were blinded to laser and sham laser
acupuncture. Control participants were unaware of the trial.
Main Outcomes and Measures Primary outcomes were average knee pain (numeric rating scale, 0 [no
pain] to 10 [worst pain possible]; minimal clinically important difference
[MCID], 1.8 units) and physical function (Western Ontario and McMaster
Universities Osteoarthritis Index, 0 [no difficulty] to 68 [extreme
difficulty]; MCID, 6 units) at 12 weeks. Secondary outcomes included other pain
and function measures, quality of life, global change, and 1-year follow-up.
Analyses were by intention-to-treat using multiple imputation for missing
outcome data.
Results At 12 weeks
and 1 year, 26 (9%) and 50 (18%) participants were lost to follow-up,
respectively. Analyses showed neither needle nor laser acupuncture
significantly improved pain (mean difference; −0.4 units; 95% CI, −1.2 to 0.4,
and −0.1; 95% CI, −0.9 to 0.7, respectively) or function (−1.7; 95% CI, −6.1 to
2.6, and 0.5; 95% CI, −3.4 to 4.4, respectively) compared with sham at 12
weeks. Compared with control, needle and laser acupuncture resulted in modest
improvements in pain (−1.1; 95% CI, −1.8 to −0.4, and −0.8; 95% CI, −1.5 to
−0.1, respectively) at 12 weeks, but not at 1 year. Needle acupuncture resulted
in modest improvement in function compared with control at 12 weeks (−3.9; 95%
CI, −7.7 to −0.2) but was not significantly different from sham (−1.7; 95% CI,
−6.1 to 2.6) and was not maintained at 1 year. There were no differences for
most secondary outcomes and no serious adverse events.
Conclusions and Relevance In patients older than 50 years with moderate or severe chronic knee
pain, neither laser nor needle acupuncture conferred benefit over sham for pain
or function. Our findings do not support acupuncture for these patients.
Trial Registration anzctr.org.au Identifier: ACTRN12609001001280