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A 2010 systematic review suggested that acupuncture is more than a placebo for commonly occurring chronic pain conditions, but the authors acknowledged that it is still unknown if the overall benefit is clinically meaningful or cost-effective.<ref name=Hopton2010>{{cite journal|last1=Hopton|first1=Ann|last2=MacPherson|first2=Hugh|title=Acupuncture for Chronic Pain: Is Acupuncture More than an Effective Placebo? A Systematic Review of Pooled Data from Meta-analyses|journal=Pain Practice|volume=10|issue=2|year=2010|pages=94–102|issn=15307085|doi=10.1111/j.1533-2500.2009.00337.x|pmid=20070551}}</ref> A 2010 review found real acupuncture and sham acupuncture produce similar improvements, which can only be accepted as evidence against the efficacy of acupuncture.<ref name=Enck2010/> The same review found limited evidence that real acupuncture and sham acupuncture appear to produce biological differences despite similar effects.<ref name=Enck2010>{{cite journal|last1=Enck|first1=Paul|last2=Klosterhalfen|first2=Sibylle|last3=Zipfel|first3=Stephan|title=Acupuncture, psyche and the placebo response|journal=Autonomic Neuroscience|volume=157|issue=1-2|year=2010|pages=68–73|issn=15660702|doi=10.1016/j.autneu.2010.03.005|pmid=20359961}}</ref> A 2009 systematic review and meta-analysis found that acupuncture had a small analgesic effect, which appeared to lack any clinical importance and could not be discerned from bias.<ref name=Madsen2009/> The same review found that it remains unclear whether acupuncture reduces pain independent of a psychological impact of the needling ritual.<ref name=Madsen2009>{{cite journal |last1=Madsen |first1=M. V. |last2=Gøtzsche |first2=P. C |last3=Hróbjartsson |first3=A. |title=Acupuncture treatment for pain: systematic review of randomised clinical trials with acupuncture, placebo acupuncture, and no acupuncture groups |journal=BMJ |volume=338 |pages=a3115 |year=2009 |pmid=19174438 |pmc=2769056 |doi=10.1136/bmj.a3115}}</ref>

According to ''[[Miller's Anesthesia]]'', "when compared with placebo, acupuncture treatment has proven efficacy for relieving pain".<ref>{{cite book|title=Miller's Anesthesia.|date=2014|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=0702052833|page=1235}}</ref>{{MEDRS}}

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