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Does acupuncture really work? In the summer of 2000, Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital opened an acupuncture clinic in its Wasser Pain Management Centre to treat patients suffering from chronic pain. Acupuncturist Adam Chen, who helped launch the clinic, recalls that many doctors were sceptical at first. "The treatments helped reduce the patients' use of medications, like morphine and codeine," he says. "The positive results changed quite a few doctors' minds."

Today, doctors at or affiliated with Mount Sinai routinely refer patients to the clinic for a wide variety of pain-related conditions: whiplash and other car-accident injuries, back problems, post-oper ative pain, migraine headaches, arthritic pain, sciatica, pelvic pain, neuralgia and fibromyalgia. The treatments are delivered by certified staff and senior students from the acupuncture program at Toronto's Michener Institute for Applied Health Sciences, a partner in the clinic. "We treat people for pain from head to toe. Patients come to us after other modalities don't work - drugs, physical therapy and occupational therapy. About 60 to 70 percent of our patients have an effective response to acupuncture," explains acupuncturist James Fu, who teaches at Michener.

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