ArticleFrontiers in aging neuroscience2018
Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease: An Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline.
Article in Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effectiveness and safety of acupuncture for Parkinson's disease anxiety: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2025Pooled it
- Efficacy of Qigong Exercise for Treatment of Fatigue: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Pooled it
- Qihuang Needle Therapy for Motor Symptoms in Parkinson's Disease: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2026Trial
- Effectiveness of Acupuncture for Anxiety Among Patients With Parkinson Disease: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2022Trial
- Parkinson's Disease: Pathophysiology, Treatment Strategies, Wellness Approaches, and Obstacles/Paths Forward.NeuroSci · 2026Review
- Delivering Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation Care in Parkinson's Disease: An International Consensus Statement.Journal of Parkinson's disease · 2024Article
- Real-world Chinese herbal medicine for Parkinson's disease: a hospital-based retrospective analysis of electronic medical records.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2024Article
- Insights into the Anti-Aging Prevention and Diagnostic Medicine and Healthcare.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Qihuang needle therapy for Parkinson's disease: a triple-arm randomized controlled trial protocol assessing efficacy and neuroplasticity via multimodal MRI.Frontiers in neurologyArticle
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Abstract
Patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (IPD) require long-term care and are reported to use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) interventions frequently. This CAM-specific clinical practice guideline (CPG) makes recommendations for the use of CAM, including herbal medicines, acupuncture, moxibustion, pharmaco-acupuncture, and qigong (with Tai chi) in patients with IPD. This guideline was developed using an evidence-based approach with randomized controlled trials currently available. Even though this CPG had some limitations, mainly originating from the bias inherent in the research on which it is based, it would be helpful when assessing the value of the CAM interventions frequently used in patients with IPD.
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