Iréne Lund

TL;DR: Control interventions are equally effective as acupuncture in alleviating pain conditions that are predominantly associated with affective components such as migraine or low back pain, but not those with a more pronounced sensory component, such as osteoarthritis of the knee or lateral epicondylalgia.

TL;DR: It is argued that minimal acupuncture is not valid as an inert placebo-control despite its conceptual brilliance, as acupuncture was found to be more potent than minimal acupuncture and conventional non-acupuncture treatment.

TL;DR: Comparison of results from the three pain assessments showed that the painmatcher is at least as reliable and responsive as VAS and NRS and none of the three measurements showed evidence for systematic disagreement and had only significant random individual disagreement.

TL;DR: An increase in hindpaw withdrawal latencies (HWLs) is demonstrated, in response to thermal and mechanical stimuli, which was present after six treatments of massage‐like stroking every other day and which continued to increase through the remaining seven treatments, indicating activation of oxytocin on endogenous pain controlling systems.

TL;DR: The pain intensity assessments on VAS and VRS are not interchangeable and a risk to over or under estimate the patient's perceived pain when interpreting condensed VAS data is indicated, indicating that the scales have non-linear properties and that the two scales probably have different interpretation.