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ArticleJournal of healthcare engineering2022

Effects of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Combined with Needle-Knife on Pain and Lumbar Function in Patients with Lumbar Disc Herniation.

Guoqiang Peng, Yanfang Zheng, Dejun Luo

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Article in Journal of healthcare engineering, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 25% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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.

2 · The registry

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. [Clinical Efficacy of Acupuncture Combined With Acupoint Patching in Treating Chronic Pelvic Pain as a Sequela of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease].Sichuan da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Sichuan University. Medical science edition · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Guoqiang PengOrthopedics Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Taizhou Jiangyan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Taizhou, China.
Yanfang ZhengComprehensive Nursing Clinic, PLA Rocket Force Characteristic Medical Center, Beijing, China.
Dejun LuoDepartment of Orthopedics, the People's Hospital of Jianyang City, Jianyang, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6006-256X
Chinese PLA General Hospital · CNFuyang City People's Hospital · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study aimed for the analysis of the effect of acupuncture and moxibustion combined with needle-knife on pain and lumbar function in patients with lumbar disc herniation. From June 2019 to February 2021, the medical records of 126 patients with lumbar disc herniation admitted to the department of orthopedics of our hospital were selected and divided into the control group (

Indexed as

Acupuncture TherapyIntervertebral Disc DisplacementMoxibustionHumansInterleukin-10Interleukin-6Lumbar VertebraeMatrix Metalloproteinase 2PainTreatment OutcomeTumor Necrosis Factor-alphaInterleukin-10Interleukin-6Matrix Metalloproteinase 2Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha

Identifiers

PMID35432832
PMCPMC9010147
OpenAlexW4226059681

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