Expectancy in Real and Sham Electroacupuncture: Does Believing Make It So?

Conclusions
Baseline higher response expectancy predicts treatment response in SA, but not in EA. Divergent mechanisms may exist for how SA and EA influence pain outcomes, and patients with low expectancy may do better with EA than SA.

Source: JNCI Monographs - November 3, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Bauml, J., Xie, S. X., Farrar, J. T., Bowman, M. A., Li, S. Q., Bruner, D., DeMichele, A., Mao, J. J. Tags: Article Source Type: research