Department of Acupuncture and Tuina, Changchun University of Chinese Medicine, Changchun, China.
School of Nursing Beihua University, Jilin, China.
Medicine (Baltimore). 2022 Dec 16;101(50):e31820. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000031820.
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.
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.
This meta-analysis further established the efficacy of acupuncture combined with traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of KOA.
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.
随着社会老龄化，膝骨关节炎（KOA）的发病率逐年上升，严重影响患者的生活质量。针灸疗法已广泛应用于骨关节炎的治疗，但目前尚无针灸联合中医药治疗膝骨关节炎的系统评价。因此，本研究旨在通过系统评价和 Meta 分析明确针灸联合中医药治疗膝骨关节炎的疗效和安全性。
系统检索 2022 年 3 月 20 日前 PubMed、Embase、Cochrane 中央对照试验注册库、Web of Science、中国知网、中国生物医学文献数据库、中国科学引文数据库、万方数据库和 2 个临床试验注册平台：中国临床试验注册中心、ClinicalTrials.gov（www.ClinicalTrials.gov/），采用 Cochrane 协作网提供的 Review Manager 5.4 软件进行统计分析。评价纳入研究的质量和风险，并观察结局指标。
本 Meta 分析进一步证实了针灸联合中医药治疗膝骨关节炎的疗效。
本研究旨在评价针灸联合中医药治疗膝骨关节炎的疗效，为临床医生和患者在膝骨关节炎的治疗中提供更多选择。
