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Acupuncture and moxibustion for primary osteoporosis: An overview of systematic review.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 25 citations in OpenAlex.
- Efficacy of acupuncture for primary osteoporosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2025Pooled it
- A bibliometric analysis of acupuncture applied to primary osteoporosis.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Efficacy of acupuncture-related therapy for postmenopausal osteoporosis: a systematic review and network meta-analysis based on randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Identifying the effective combination of acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicinal herbs for postmenopausal osteoporosis therapy through studies of their molecular regulation of bone homeostasis.Journal of traditional Chinese medicine = Chung i tsa chih ying wen pan · 2024Review
- Altered Brain Functional and Effective Connectivity Induced by Electroacupuncture in Rats Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Transection.Journal of pain research · 2024Article
- Osteoporosis treatment: current drugs and future developments.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Review
- Comparative efficacy of acupuncture-related therapy for postmenopausal osteoporosis: protocol for Bayesian network meta-analysis.BMJ open · 2023Article
- Moxibustion as adjuvant therapy for preventing bone loss in postmenopausal women: protocol for a randomised controlled trial.BMJ open · 2022Article
- Effects of moxibustion at bilateral Feishu (BL13) and Xinshu (BL15) combined with benazepril on myocardial cells apoptosis index and apoptosis-related proteins cytochrome c and apoptosis-inducing factor in rats with chronic heart failure.Journal of traditional Chinese medicine = Chung i tsa chih ying wen pan · 2022Article
- Overall adjustment acupuncture improves osteoporosis and exerts an endocrine-modulating effect in ovariectomized rats.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022Article
- Efficacy of Moxibustion for Primary Osteoporosis: A Trial Sequential Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2022Review
- Application of Refined Nursing Combined with Comprehensive Treatment of Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine in Gastrointestinal Dysfunction after Tumor Operation.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2022Article
- Needle-Warming Moxibustion plus Multirehabilitation Training to Improve Quality of Life and Functional Mobility of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis after Medication.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2022Article
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9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Primary osteoporosis (PO) is a common disease that was characterized by a systemic impairment of bone mass and microarchitecture that results in fragility fractures and constitutes a pressing public health problem. But the effect of acupuncture or moxibustion treatment for PO is controversial.To provide a comprehensive systematic overview of current evidence from systematic reviews (SR)/Meta-analysis of acupuncture treatment for PO pertaining to risk of bias, quality of evidence and report quality.A total of 9 international and Chinese databases were searched for SR/meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). The risk of bias of SR/meta-analysis was appraised using the risk of bias in systematic reviews (ROBIS) instrument, the quality of the evidence was evaluated via Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE), and the report quality of the included studies are estimated by Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses (PRISMA).According to ROBIS, only 2 articles were with risk of low bias; according to PRISMA, and most articles were reported incomplete, mainly in Q2, Q7, Q24, and Q27; according to GRADE, a total of 28 outcome indicators were evaluated under 4 different interventions of experimental group and control group: the evidence quality of bone mineral density (BMD) from treatment of acupuncture and moxibustion/acupuncture and moxibustion plus was high or moderate; Visual Analogue Score (VAS) of acupuncture plus moxibustion or acupuncture plus moxibustion plus other was low or very low; clinical effectiveness of acupuncture plus moxibustion or acupuncture plus moxibustion plus other was uncertain.Acupuncture and moxibustion can improve the BMD of PO patients according to high-quality evidence, and may benefit VAS, pain score, clinical efficacy based on moderate or low-quality evidence. Further research that provides higher quality evidence of SR/RCTs of acupuncture and moxibustion treatment for PO is required.
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