1. Possibility or placebo?
Acupuncture
Possibility or placebo?

2. What is acupuncture?
Placing of needles into the skin at certain points
Traditional Chinese explanation
Rivers of qi energy becoming blocked
Scientific explanation
Neural pathways in the brain

3. Question:
Does acupuncture provide legitimate treatment for chronic back pain? Large split between those tat believe it and those that don’t.

4. Why is this important? Other alternatives
Medicare/ insurance companies
Modern Medicine cant heal everything perfectly
Ex. Chronic back pain, lazy eye, ect.

5. Position Affirmative stance
Acupuncture can be a legitimate form of treatment for many illnesses when preformed correctly

6. What Con says: Placebo effect Studies of sham acupuncture
Difficult to measure human pain

7. Pro Sham acupuncture vs. Real case studies
Real acupuncture had more of an effect than the sham acupuncture
The government in 1997 formally recognized acupuncture as a healing option.
Prescribing acupuncture as a treatment

8. Methods: Use of proper websites URL Type of website
Is it a legitimate source
Why these?
Needed to be legitimate medical sources
Need facts not opinions