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doi: 10.1016/j.rbo.2013.03.002 ignorance among the public in relation to medicine, and we need to be alert with regard to all forms of alternative therapy because interesting therapeutic paths may arise from them. We should constantly pay attention to new procedures that have positive therapeutic effects, because any resource that alleviates symptoms honestly and efficiently should be added to our therapeutic arsenal. However, exaggeration of the effects, which is very common among those who deal with new therapies, leads to discrediting of methods that might be efficient within the limits of their use. Some of these therapies that used to be considered to be alternative can already be included as auxiliary methods and, in some cases, as principal methods. One example of these is acupuncture. Today, it is known that this brings real benefits in treating osteoarticular pain, without aggressiveness and with good efficiency. We can use it as coadjuvant therapy in treating tendinitis, for example, with very interesting results. Use of acupuncture diminishes pain and this makes it possible for us to guide patients towards muscle strength improvement and stretching exercises that will cure them. Acupuncture is also very efficient for treating acute pain and enables parallel treatment of the cause of the pain, for example in cases of acute muscle injuries. Other therapies for pain that today are used in physiatry are very useful for treating chronic pain. In arthrosis, the pain arises as the cartilage wears out and as a result of numerous other factors such as muscle contraction, synovitis and tendinitis, and therefore correction of the cartilage disease alone is sometimes insufficient for immediate relief of the symptoms. It may be very annoying when patients come up with questions or statements about alternative therapy during medical consultations:

Does alternative therapy have a place in the RBO?