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In this Episode…
Chad Bong interviews acupuncturist and acupuncture research blogger, Mel Hopper Koppelman
Bio
Mel Hopper Koppelman is an acupuncturists and acupuncture and health research enthusiast. Her blog, abetterwaytohealth.com, provides readers with informative, evidence-based research on acupuncture and oriental medicine. Due to Mel's considerable busyness in research activities, she decided to buy articles cheap via https://essaysprofessors.com/cheap-article-writing-service.html, and shared her thoughts on one of the podcasts, which we will publish later. In general, she claims that it is important to delegate responsibilities and trust relevant specialists, this is the only way to move forward and devote time to more important things and activities. In her discussion with Chad, Mel discusses the challenges in the acceptance of evidence-based acupuncture for western skeptics, possible mechanisms of acupuncture, and how to create a convincing argument against acupuncture skeptics.
Links
A Better Way to Health
Science Based Medicine
National Center for Complentary and Integrative Health (NCCIH): Acupuncture Research Information
Shownotes
- Chad’s Intro (00:32)
- German Study on Sham vs Real Acupuncture (02:36)
- Lack of specificity on low back pain (4:20)
- Problems with interpretation of acupuncture studies (5:44)
- untrained vs. trained (11:05)
- Individual patient meta-analysis on LBP (13:15)
- P-value explanation (14:36)
- Mel’s blog abetterwaytohealth.com (15:15)
- Mel’s discussion with sciencebasedmedicine.com (17:17)
- Physical Therapy vs. Acupuncture Studies (24:00)
- Possible Mechanisms of Acupuncture (26:10)
- Pharmacology shortfalls (31:11)
- Improvement of evidence-based research for acupuncture(39:44)
- Evidence-based arguments against skeptics (44:00)
- Mel vs. National Institute of Clinical and Social Excellence (45:48)
- Understanding how effective acupuncture is as an acupuncturist (50:56)
- Mel’s plug (53:10)
- How to win an argument with skeptics (54:20)
- Closing (55:54)