Electro-acupuncture for post-stroke cognitive impairment: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A considerable number of stroke survivors suffered from cognitive impairment, and more than one third of stroke survivors are affected at 3 and 12 months after the stroke. Although the published systematic reviews suggest that acupuncture can help improve post-stroke cognitive dysfunction, the power of the results is low due to study limitations. Therefore, this review is necessary to analyze the effect of acupuncture on cognitive impairment after stroke and to provide evidence for cognitive impairment in stroke.

Methods

This study will be carried out in strict accordance with the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions. According to the pre-established search strategy (PICOS framework), all the literature will be obtained from online databases i

SUBMITTER: Xie G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8878786 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature