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| Curative evaluation of peripheral facial paralysis by acupuncture combined with acupoint and intramuscular injection in controlled and randomized trials |
| Hits 2396 Download times 2459 Received:September 11, 2008 |
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| DOI
10.11656/j.issn.1672-1519.2009.01.12 |
| Key Words
acupunture with acupoint injection/acupuncture;peripheral facial paralysis;clinical randomized controlled trials;curativeeffect evaluation |
| Author Name | Affiliation | | LUO Xiong-fei | The First Hospital Affiliated to Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin 300193, China | | LI Bo | Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin 300193, China | | DU Yuan-hao | 天津中医药大学第一附属医院 天津 300193 | | 熊俊 | Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin 300193, China | | 石磊 | Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin 300193, China |
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| Abstract
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| [Objective] To explore the effective and convenient method in acupuncture and moxibustion therapy for treating peripheral facial paralysis, to evaluate the curative effect of acupuncture combined with acupoint and intramuscular injection.[Methods] The therapeutic data in acupuncture therapy combined with acupoint injection in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) were collected according tothe evaluation method of Cochrane library.RevMan4.2.8 software was employed for statistics analysis.[Results] Three related literaturesmet with the standards.There were altogether 202 cases.Meta-analysis showed that the total effect of both therapeutic methods was:RR=1.13, 95% CI was 1.00, 1.29, P=0.06 and no difference in statistics was noted.[Conclusion] Acupunture with acupoint and intramuscularinjection probably have the equivalent effect in the treatment of peripheral facial paralysis suggesting that the clinical operations and pa-tients’ compliance can be enhanced.But the quality and quantity of literatures were inferior, so these conclusions need to be interpretedcarefully. |
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