ReviewEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2021
The Effectiveness of Acupuncture for Dysphagia after Stroke: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 19 citations in OpenAlex.
- Data mining of acupoint selection and combination patterns for dysphagia with sialorrhea: a literature-based study.Frontiers in neurology · 2026Pooled it
- The efficacy of acupuncture for post-stroke dysphagia: an overview of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Pooled it
- Application of dietary training combined with acupuncture based on syndrome differentiation for treating dysphagia in stroke rehabilitation patients.Archives of medical science : AMS · 2026Article
- Current state of research on acupuncture for the treatment of post-stroke dysphagia: a scoping review.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Collet-Sicard syndrome caused by a paraganglioma in the region of the jugular foramen on one side: A case report and review.SAGE open medical case reports · 2024Article
- Effect of acupuncture on post-stroke dysphagia: a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Article
- Trends and hotspots related to traditional and modern approaches on acupuncture for stroke: A bibliometric and visualization analysis.Medicine · 2023Article
- Effect of Electro-Acupuncture on Lateralization of the Human Swallowing Motor Cortex Excitability by Navigation-Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation-Electromyography.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- The Effects of Adding Di-Tan Decoction (DTD) and/or Electroacupuncture (EA) to Standard Swallowing Rehabilitation Training (SRT) for Improving Poststroke Dysphagia (PSD): A Pilot, Single-Centred, Randomized Trial.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2022Article
- Multimodal neuroimaging protocol to explore the neural mechanisms of Tiao Shen Li Yan acupuncture in post-stroke dysphagia: a randomized sham-controlled clinical trial.Frontiers in neurologyArticle
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectivesThis study reviewed and evaluated existing evidence of the efficacy of acupuncture as a clinical treatment for dysphagia after stroke.
methodsFive English and four Chinese databases were searched from inception to March 2020. All randomized controlled trials (RCTs) incorporating acupuncture or acupuncture combined with other interventions for the treatment of dysphagia after stroke were enrolled. All data were independently assessed and extracted by two authors. The bias risk assessment recommended by the Cochrane Collaboration's tool was used to assess the quality of the selected studies. This meta-analysis was conducted by using RevMan 5.3. Pooled analyses were calculated by the mean difference (MD) and 95% confidence interval (CI). Heterogeneity was assessed by the
resultsThirty-five studies involving 3024 patients were analyzed. The meta-analysis showed that the therapeutic efficacy of acupuncture combined with other interventions was better than that of the control group for the standardized swallowing assessment (SSA) score (MD = -3.78, 95% CI: -4.64 to -2.91,
conclusionThis systematic review indicated that acupuncture could be an effective therapy for treating dysphagia after stroke although stricter evaluation standards and rigorously designed RCTs are needed.
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