Alternative treatments in pain management and medication therapy
This is a critical review of MacPherson, H., Thorpe, L., & Thomas, K. (2006). Beyond needling therapeutic processes in acupuncture care: A qualitative study nested within a low-back pain trial. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 12, 873-880. While the study does indeed share the clinical insights, attitudes, and thinking processes of acupuncturists treating chronic pain, it falls short in its other assumptions and simply portrays the researchers as nit understanding the very essence if the constructs they investigate.