Meta-analysis on the Therapeutic Effect of Acupuncture at Meridian Sinew for Spastic Paralysis After Stroke

To review systematically the clinical effects of spastic paralysis after stroke treated with acupuncture at meridian sinew ("Jingjin", musculotendon). "Meridian sinew" "stroke" and "spasm" were taken as the key words to retrieve from the Chinese National Knowl...

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Published inZhēncì yánjiū Vol. 42; no. 2; p. 178
Main Authors Zhang, Yu, Ma, Tie-Ming, Bai, Zeng-Hua, Sun, Bo-Wen, Zhao, Hong-Yi
Format Journal Article
LanguageChinese
Published China 25.04.2017
Subjects
Acupuncture Therapy
Humans
Meridians
Muscle Spasticity - etiology
Muscle Spasticity - therapy
Stroke - complications
Treatment Outcome
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Summary:To review systematically the clinical effects of spastic paralysis after stroke treated with acupuncture at meridian sinew ("Jingjin", musculotendon). "Meridian sinew" "stroke" and "spasm" were taken as the key words to retrieve from the Chinese National Knowledge Infrastracture Database (CNKI), Chongqing VIP Chinese Science and Technology Periodical Database (VIP), Chinese Biomedical Library (CBM), Wanfang Data, PubMed and the Cochrane Library. The Cochrane"risk of bias" tool was used to conduct the methodological quality evaluation to the literature. RevMan 5.3 software was adopted for Meta-analysis. Totally, 13 papers were included, with 820 patients involved. In reference to Cochrane Reviewers' Handbook 5.0.2, the randomized controlled trial (RCT) risk of bias was assessed and it was unclear for all of the 13 papers. The results of Meta-analysis showed that the clinical effect was improved with acupuncture at meridian sinew as compared with normal acupuncture technique[①total effective rate:OR=3.86, 95% C
ISSN:1000-0607