Acupuncture, more than just placebo.

A randomized control trial on acupuncture and chronic low back pain shows that acupuncture outperforms placebo!

This means that patients who received "real acupuncture" treatments showed faster results and were able to go to work sooner than the other patient's who were told they were getting acupuncture but instead were just receiving needles at non acupuncture areas.

Check it out: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24755566