The effectiveness and safety of acupuncture for knee osteoarthritis: An overview of systematic reviews.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Knee osteoarthritis (KOA), known as severe degenerative arthritis, commonly occurs in middle-aged and elderly people all over the world. Acupuncture as traditional oriental intervention is getting widely used and several systematic reviews (SRs) have reported the effectiveness of acupuncture on pain relief and functional recovery in patients with KOA.

Objective

Conducting an overview of SRs to provide more reliable evidence-based medical references for clinical practitioners and researchers of the effectiveness and safety of acupuncture for KOA.

Data sources

EMBASE, Medline, Web of science, the Cochrane library, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, the Chinese Science and Technology Periodical Database, China Biology Medicine, Wan Fang Digital Journals,

SUBMITTER: Li J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6641846 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature