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ReviewJournal of traditional Chinese medicine = Chung i tsa chih ying wen pan2024

Musculoskeletal ultrasound to evaluate the efficacy of acupuncture: a review.

Wang Dingyue, Y U Yana, Wang Yiyuan, Zhang Zhen

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Review in Journal of traditional Chinese medicine = Chung i tsa chih ying wen pan, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Effect of pestle needle therapy on the posterior cervical muscle in a rabbit model of cervical spondylosis.Journal of traditional Chinese medicine = Chung i tsa chih ying wen pan · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Wang DingyueDepartment of Ultrasound, the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110001, China.
Y U YanaDepartment of Ultrasound, the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110001, China.
Wang YiyuanDepartment of Ultrasound, the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110001, China.
Zhang ZhenDepartment of Ultrasound, the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110001, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acupuncture is a typical example of Traditional Chinese Medicine and has been used in China for hundreds of years to treat a wide range of illnesses. However, in the clinic, issues and deficiencies were primarily seen in four areas: loss of accuracy in the operation process; difficulty understanding the depth of acupuncture; difficulty using reinforcing and reducing techniques; and lack of a clear dynamic effect of acupuncture points following acupuncture. Musculoskeletal ultrasonography may quantitatively evaluate the acupuncture location and display the distribution of small nerves near and within the fascia of the acupuncture point in real time. The subjects were asked how they felt about receiving

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Acupuncture PointsAcupuncture TherapyUltrasonographyHumansMusculoskeletal Systemacupuncturedynamic effectmusculoskeletal ultrasoundvisualization

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PMID38767648
PMCPMC11077141

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