Ted J Kaptchuk LIC. AC.
Acupuncturist
Osher Institute/Harvard Med School 401 Park Drive Boston MA, 02215About
Ted Kaptchuk is an acupuncturist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Kaptchuk evaluates and treats patients based on the concepts of oriental medicine. Acupuncturists complete their evaluations by getting a patient history and looking at and touching the body. Then, they place very fine acupuncture needles into specific points on the body. Stimulating these points and nerves is how Dr. Kaptchuk treats the patients condition. Many of the bodys systems respond to acupuncture, and it can treat physical pain as well as emotional stress.
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Are randomized control trial outcomes influenced by the inclusion of a placebo group?: a systematic review of nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug trials for arthritis treatment.
- Acupuncture and amitriptyline for HIV-related peripheral neuropathic pain.
- Chinese herbal medicine for irritable bowel syndrome.
- Myocardial gene transfer for patients with myocardial ischemia.
- Placebos and placebo effects in medicine: historical overview.
- Debate over the history of placebos in medicine.
- Do medical devices have enhanced placebo effects?
- Methodological issues in trials of acupuncture.
- Distant healing.
- Randomized trial comparing traditional Chinese medical acupuncture, therapeutic
- The double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial: gold standard or golden calf?
- Varieties of healing. 1: medical pluralism in the United States.
- Varieties of healing. 2: a taxonomy of unconventional healing practices.
- Complementary and alternative medicine--an Annals series.
- Long-term trends in the use of complementary and alternative medical therapies in the United States.
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