Electroacupuncture with rehabilitation training for limb spasticity reduction in post-stroke patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Oh well, you can google 'electro acpuncture quackery' to see if you believe that or this paper. Up to you.  To me this can only be an elaborate placebo effect since energy meridians have never been proven to exist.

 Electroacupuncture with rehabilitation training for limb spasticity reduction in post-stroke patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation , Volume 28(4) , Pgs. 340-361.

NARIC Accession Number: J87054.  What's this?
ISSN: 1074-9357.
Author(s): Zhang, Jiyao ; Zhu, Luwen ; Tang, Qiang.
Publication Year: 2021.
Number of Pages: 22.

Abstract: 

Study assessed the evidence on the effectiveness of electroacupuncture (EA) with rehabilitation training in reducing limb spasticity in post-stroke patients. Six databases (Medline/Pubmed, Embase, Cochrane Library, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Database for Chinese Technical Periodicals, and Wanfang Data) for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on EA with rehabilitation training for limb spasticity reduction in post-stroke patients. A meta-analysis was performed after bibliography screening, data extraction, and risk of bias assessment using the Cochrane handbook. A total of 31 RCTs (including 2,488 participants) were included. The primary outcome was spasticity. Overall, the quality of other RCTs was not high. All studies performed a descriptive analysis, and 29 RCTs conducted a meta-analysis. The odds ratio (OR) for marked efficiency was 2.35. The OR for Modified Ashworth Scale (MAS) classification was 2.42. The weighted mean difference (WMD) for MAS score was −0. 1. The WMD for clinical spasticity index score was −1.50. The findings suggest that EA with rehabilitation training could be a good strategy for reducing limb spasticity after stroke and is better than EA alone or rehabilitation training alone. However, its effectiveness remains to be further verified by large-sample and high-quality RCTs.
Descriptor Terms: ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE, INTERVENTION, LIMBS, LITERATURE REVIEWS, OUTCOMES, REHABILITATION, SPASTICITY, STROKE.


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Citation: Zhang, Jiyao , Zhu, Luwen , Tang, Qiang. (2021). Electroacupuncture with rehabilitation training for limb spasticity reduction in post-stroke patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis.  Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation , 28(4), Pgs. 340-361. Retrieved 9/26/2021, from REHABDATA database.