ReviewJournal of pharmacopuncture2021
Effect of Complementary Medicine on Pain Relief and Wound Healing after Cesarean Section: A Systematic Review.
Review in Journal of pharmacopuncture, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
6 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.
- A meta-analysis of the effects of multimodal intervention measures on the recovery of postpartum women after cesarean section.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Pooled it
- The Use of Honey for Cicatrization and Pain Control of Obstetric Wounds: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Nutrients · 2024Pooled it
- Quality of reporting electrophysical resources for post-cesarean pain relief: A scoping review.Brazilian journal of physical therapy · 2026Review
- Effect of Topically Administered Natural Compounds on Cesarean Section Healing-A Retrospective Observational Study.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The Efficacy and Safety Herbal Medicine for Symptom Management After HIFU Treatment in Adenomyosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Effect of sleep quality on wound healing among patients undergoing emergency laparotomy: an observational study.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2025Observational
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectivesCesarean sections are one of the common surgical procedures around the world. Management of cesarean section side effects, including pain, hematoma, delayed wound healing, is of particular importance in maintaining maternal health and ability to care for the baby. The tendency to use complementary medicine strategies is on the rise because of the easy treatment with low side effects. The purpose of this study was to systematically review the efficacy and safety of clinical trials performed in Iran and worldwide on the effect of complementary medicine on pain relief and wound healing after cesarean section.
methodsPRISMA checklist was followed to prepare the report of this systematic review. The search process was carried out on databases on databases of Magiran, SID, Iran Medex, Scopus, Pub Med, Science direct, Medline and Cochrane library using keywords of cesarean, pain, wound healing, Herbal medicine, acupressure, massage, complementary medicine and their Persian equivalent and all possible combinations, from inception until February 2020. We used the Jadad scale to assess the quality of the searched articles. According to the Jadad scale, the articles with a score of at least 3 were included in the study.
resultsFinally, 28 clinical trials (with a sample size of 3,245) scored at least 3 on the Jadad scale were included into the analysis. This article reviewed 13 articles on medicinal herbs, 4 articles on massage, 1 article on reflexology, 2 articles on acupressure.
conclusionAccording to the present review, the use of medicinal herbs was the most common method of complementary medicine in pain relief and wound healing after cesarean section.
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