De placebo procedure is altijd boeiend om te volgen, dit maal was het een erg sterke:

Auricular acupuncture was performed by 1 of 3 certified acupuncturists, including T.I.U. and T.W. (each with more than 5 years of clinical practice). Disposable fixed indwelling steel auricular acupuncture needles (0.22 mm diameter and 1.5 mm long) were inserted before surgery, fixed with skin-coloured adhesive tape and retained in situ until the following morning. The auricular acupuncture group received acupuncture at 3 acupuncture points ipsilateral to the surgery site: knee joint, shenmen and lung. Three nonacupuncture points of the helix ipsilateral to the site of surgery were used for the invasive needle control.  

De hoeveelheid pijnstillers na de OK was de primaire maat die men wilde meten, en daar werd dus een duidelijk effect gevonden: met ooracupunctuur minder pijnstillers!

In conclusion, this study has shown that auricular acupuncture applied to specific acupuncture points reduced the requirement for ibuprofen relative to invasive needle control after ambulatory arthroscopic knee surgery.  ^[1]

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