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Patients’ interest in and demand for alternative clinical therapies such as acupuncture require that clinicians be prepared to discuss the efficacy of those treatments. Results from a clinical trial in Germany suggest that acupuncture can reduce pain associated with primary and secondary dysmenorrhea.
Participants were women who had sought clinical advice for dysmenorrhea and whose clinicians considered acupuncture a suitable treatment option. The investigators randomized 101 patients to immediate acupuncture and 100 to a control group who received acupuncture after 3 months; 448 patients who refused randomization also received heavily discounted acupuncture sessions. The primary outcome was visual analog scale reporting of average pain inte…