ReviewMedical acupuncture2022
Effectiveness of Acupuncture for Nonspecific Chronic Low Back Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
Review in Medical acupuncture, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
- Systematic Review to Inform a World Health Organization (WHO) Clinical Practice Guideline: Benefits and Harms of Needling Therapies for Chronic Primary Low Back Pain in Adults.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2023Pooled it
- Efficacy of Pilates on Pain, Functional Disorders and Quality of Life in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- Acupuncture in chronic aspecific low back pain: a Bayesian network meta-analysis.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2022Pooled it
- High-intensity versus low-intensity laser acupuncture in chronic, non-specific low back pain: a double-blinded, randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Trial
- Effect of High-Intensity Laser Acupuncture on Muscle Performance, Pain, and Quality of Life in Patients with Chronic Nonspecific Low Back Pain: A Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2026Trial
- De-implementing spinal injections in pursuit of value-based care: Rethinking pain relief.The journal of pain · 2026Review
- Acute effects of a single electroacupuncture session on purinergic signaling and inflammatory markers in patients with chronic nonspecific low back pain: a pilot study.Purinergic signalling · 2026Article
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- Protocol for a clinical practice guideline on acupuncture for chronic non-specific low back pain.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Toward Precision Acupuncture for Pain: Host Genetic Variability, Omics Biomarkers, and Treatment-Response Stratification.Human mutation · 2026Review
- Cochrane reviews of acupuncture are dated, do not account for the specific effects of sham controls and likely underestimate the efficacy of acupuncture therapy.Integrative medicine research · 2025Review
- Exploring the Experiences of Patients Undergoing Acupuncture at a Community-based Clinic Using Narrative Analysis.Acta medica Philippina · 2025Article
- Acupotomy for Military Training-Induced Lumbar Radiculopathy with Sciatica: Protocol of a Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of pain research · 2025Article
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- Acupuncture for Low Back Pain: Reevaluation of Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses.Current pain and headache reports · 2023Review
- Digital Therapeutics (DTx) Expand Multimodal Treatment Options for Chronic Low Back Pain: The Nexus of Precision Medicine, Patient Education, and Public Health.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Clinical efficacy of breathing training combined with core stability training in chronic nonspecific low back pain.Pakistan journal of medical sciencesArticle
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Authors and funding
3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Objective: This systematic review and meta-analysis assess the effectiveness of acupuncture as an adjunct to standard therapy in the management of nonspecific chronic low back pain (NScLBP), compared with standard therapy alone. Methods: A systematic literature search of full-text articles of randomized controlled trials in the date range of 2000-2020, utilizing PubMed and EBSCO databases, was performed to evaluate the efficacy of acupuncture treatment for nonspecific chronic lower back pain. The outcomes of interest were pain intensity and disability. The methodological quality of each study was evaluated using Cochrane risk-of-bias criteria. The studies were combined using meta-analysis when statistical pooling of data was possible. Results: This systematic review included 5 studies of which 4 were included in the meta-analysis. Acupuncture as an adjunct to standard therapy had clinically meaningful reduction in self-reported pain at post-treatment (mean difference = -1.04 [95% confidence interval (CI), -1.59 to -0.49], Conclusion: Both the systematic review and meta-analysis demonstrate that acupuncture as an adjunct to standard therapy is a safe and effective method in reducing pain and disability among adults with NScLBP.
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