Can Acupuncture Treatment Be Double-Blinded? An Evaluation of Double-Blind Acupuncture Treatment of Postoperative Pain

• Lene Vase ,

  * E-mail: lenevase@psy.au.dk

  Affiliations Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, Danish Pain Research Center, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

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• Sara Baram,

  Affiliations Section of Clinical Oral Physiology, Department of Dentistry, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, Section of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Oral Pathology, Department of Dentistry, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

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• Nobuari Takakura,

  Affiliation Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Tokyo Ariake University of Medical and Health Sciences, Tokyo, Japan

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• Miho Takayama,

  Affiliation Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Tokyo Ariake University of Medical and Health Sciences, Tokyo, Japan

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• Hiroyoshi Yajima,

  Affiliation Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Tokyo Ariake University of Medical and Health Sciences, Tokyo, Japan

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• Akiko Kawase,

  Affiliation Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Tokyo Ariake University of Medical and Health Sciences, Tokyo, Japan

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• Lars Schuster,

  Affiliation The Acupuncture Academy, Copenhagen and Aarhus, Denmark

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• Ted J. Kaptchuk,

  Affiliation Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Søren Schou,

  Affiliation Section of Clinical Oral Physiology, Department of Dentistry, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

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• Troels Staehelin Jensen,

  Affiliation Danish Pain Research Center, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

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• Robert Zachariae,

  Affiliations Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, Department of Oncology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

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• Peter Svensson

  Affiliation Section of Clinical Oral Physiology, Department of Dentistry, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

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