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Acupuncture combined with traditional Chinese medicine for knee osteoarthritis: A protocol for systematic review and
Ying Wang1, Qi Lu1, Haoze Guo1
1Department of Acupuncture and Tuina, Changchun University of Chinese Medicine, Changchun, China.
Background:
With the aging of society, the incidence of knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is increasing year by year, which seriously affects the quality of life. Acupuncture therapy has been widely used in the treatment of osteoarthritis, but there is no complete systematic review on acupuncture combined with traditional Chinese medicine. Therefore, this study aims to clarify the efficacy and safety of acupuncture combined with traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of KOA through systematic review and meta-analysis.
Methods:
A structured and systematic literature search will be conducted in the following databases up to March, 20, 2022: PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Web of Science, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Chinese Biomedical Literature Database, Chinese Scientific and Journal Database, Wan Fang database and 2 clinical trials register platforms: Chinese Clinical Trial Registry, ClinicalTrials.gov (www.ClinicalTrials.gov/). We will use the Review Manager 5.4 software provided by the Cochrane Collaborative Network for statistical analysis. We then assessed the quality and risk of the included studies and observed the outcome measures.
Results:
This meta-analysis further established the efficacy of acupuncture combined with traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of KOA.
Conclusion:
This meta-analysis aims to investigate the efficacy of acupuncture combined with traditional Chinese medicine on patients with KOA and provide reliable evidence. To provide more options for clinicians and patients in the treatment of KOA.
