A bibliometric of research trends in acupuncture for spinal cord injury: Quantitative and qualitative analyses.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a severe disease of the central nervous system with a very high disability rate that seriously affects the daily life of patients. Acupuncture is one of the rehabilitation therapies that has shown significant efficacy in treating post-SCI complications such as motor disorders, neuropathic pain, and neurogenic bladder. Current studies have focused on the effectiveness and mechanisms of acupuncture for SCI, but no studies are available to analyze the bibliometrics of publications related to this area.

Methods

Publications related to acupuncture for SCI were retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection for quantitative and qualitative analyses. The quantitative analysis was unfolded in the following six main areas: annual publicatio

SUBMITTER: Huang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9521612 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature