ReviewEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2019
Acupotomy Therapy for Shoulder Adhesive Capsulitis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.
Review in Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effectiveness and safety of ultrasound-guided needle-knife therapy for patients with spinal pain disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Progress in the Treatment of Adhesive Capsulitis with External Therapies of Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Comprehensive Review.Journal of pain research · 2026Review
- Effects of Acupotomy on Immobilization-Induced Gastrocnemius Contracture and Fibrosis in Rats via Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling.Chinese journal of integrative medicine · 2024Article
- Effectiveness and Safety of Acupotomy Treatment on Shoulder Pain: 25 Multicenter Retrospective Study.Journal of pain research · 2023Article
- Hydrodilatation with corticosteroids is the most effective conservative management for frozen shoulder.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2021Review
- Acupotomy for third lumbar vertebrae transverse process syndrome: A protocol for systematic review.Medicine · 2020Article
- Acupotomy therapy for cervical vertigo: A protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.Medicine · 2020Article
- Acupuncture and manual therapy for rotator cuff tears: A protocol for systematic review and meta analysis.Medicine · 2020Article
- The Effectiveness of Acupuncture in the Treatment of Frozen Shoulder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2020Article
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8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectiveAcupotomy therapy is widely used for pain management. However, the efficacy of acupotomy on shoulder adhesive capsulitis (SAC) is still uncertain. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness and safety of acupotomy therapy for SAC.
methodsWe searched seven electronic databases to collect randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of acupotomy for SAC published before April 2019. A meta-analysis was performed according to the Cochrane systematic review method by using RevMan 5.3 software.
resultsA total of eight RCTs involving 501 patients were enrolled. Meta-analysis showed that acupotomy was significantly better than the control group in debasing the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) score (MD = -0.97, 95% CI = [-1.49, -0.45],
conclusionAcupotomy therapy is an effective and safe treatment for SAC, and this treatment can be recommended for the management of SAC. Due to the low quality and small sample size of the included studies, more rigorously designed RCTs with high quality and large-scale are recommended in future.
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