For those people with chronic low back pain (pain for more than 3 months duration), acupuncture is one of the treatment modalities that is often prescribed by a health care professional.  But how well does acupuncture really work? One of the best trials looking at this is from a 2009 Archives of Internal Medicine article entitled “A Randomized Trial Comparing Acupuncture, Simulated Acupuncture, and Usual Care for Chronic Low Back Pain.”  The data behind the success of acupuncture...