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Medicine’s Ankit Maheshwari weighs in on effectiveness of acupuncture for treating chronic pain

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ABC NewsAnkit Maheshwari, clinical assistant professor of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine, weighed in on the effectiveness of acupuncture for treating chronic pain. “There may be a certain amount of placebo effect. Having said that, it is still quite effective as compared to no treatment,” he said.