Acupuncture for Stress Urinary Incontinence

To the Editor A randomized clinical trial of women with stress urinary incontinence found that electroacupuncture reduced urinary leakage compared with sham electroacupuncture. However, the electroacupuncture used in the study was not a typical acupuncture treatment. First, the authors did not make a traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis to determine the reason for the urinary leakage. A traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis is important to decide the acupuncture points to be used. If participants had a traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis of kidney deficiency or lung deficiency, more than 2 acupuncture points should have been used, but the authors only used 2 acupuncture points.
Source: JAMA - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research