Acupuncture and Treatment of Osteoarthritis

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD
Guest: Brian Berman, MD

What benefit does acupuncture offer in the treatment of osteoarthritis? Our guest Dr. Brian Berman, Professor of Family Medicine and the founder and director of the University of Maryland Center for Integrative Medicine shares his research supporting the hypothesis that patients with osteoarthritis benefit significantly from acupuncture treatments. In this segment, Dr. Berman talks with host Dr. Bill Rutenberg about the initial experiments which led to NIH funded trial. Learn of the outcomes of this trial including how many treatments are required to have an impact on the patient and what researchers have learned from following the patients after the trial.