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| Japanese Acupuncture and Moxibustion (Online) |
| 2010; 1: 80-91 |
| A possible double-blind (practitioner-patient masking) acupuncture needle |
| Takakura Nobuari1,2,3,4), Takayama Miho 1,2,3,4), Kawase Akiko1,2,3,4), Yajima Hiroyoshi 1,2,3,4) |
| 1) Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Faculty of Health Sciences, Tokyo Ariake University of Medical and Health Sciences, Educational Foundation of Hanada Gakuen 2) Second Department of Physiology, Showa University School of Medicine 3) The Foundation for Oriental Medicine Research 4) Hanada college, Japan School of Acupuncture, Moxibustion and Physiotherapy |
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| Figure 4 Histograms of the number of non-penetrating needles (white) or penetrating needles (gray) depicted according to intensity of skin penetration pain /penetration-like pain (SPP) and dull pain sensation (de qi) (28). |
| The vertical axis indicates the number of non-penetrating and penetrating needles. The horizontal axis indicates the score of SPP and de qi on a VAS (0–10). The distribution of counts on each VAS was similar between non-penetrating and penetrating needles (114 counts in total for each needle) for both SPP and de qi, suggesting that needle sensations elicited by the penetrating and non-penetrating needles are comparable. |