Recent research published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) concluded that acupuncture helped to control pain in patients participating in multiple high quality studies. These studies ranged from the US, UK, Germany, Spain and Sweden. Only studies with controls were included. Researchers concluded that acupuncture effectively reduced pain due to “osteoarthritis, chronic headache, shoulder pain, nonspecific musculoskeletal pain, neck pain and back pain” with good response in half of the cases. Per the article linked here: “The data is in and acupuncture is a valuable treatment modality.”