Therapeutic effect of scalp-based acupuncture and moxibustion as an adjunctive treatment on children with cerebral palsy comparing to conventional rehabilitation therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cerebral palsy (CP) in children is a predominantly congenital developmental disease with complex causes and diverse symptoms. Chinese medicine mainly uses acupuncture for the treatment of CP; as the disease site is in the brain, emphasis is placed on scalp acupuncture therapy. There were studies about the treatment but different studies had very different results. In this study, we performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of the recent reports on scalp acupuncture in the treatment of CP in children, providing evidence for clinical diagnosis and treatment.

Methods

The databases of PubMed, Chinese Biomedical Literature (CBM), China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), and VIP were searched for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on scalp acupuncture trea

SUBMITTER: Xue Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9173885 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature