Acupuncture for cerebral palsy: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

作者：Jing He, Lingxin Li, Mingming Zhang, Yin Zhang · 发表于：Neural Regeneration Research · 年份：2018 · DOI：10.4103/1673-5374.233455 · 被引用次数：31 · 研究领域：Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders、Acupuncture Treatment Research Studies、Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of acupuncture therapy for children with cerebral palsy. DATA SOURCES: We conducted electronic searches of PUBMED (1950/2017), EMBASE (1974/2017), ScienceDirect (1986/2017), Academic Source Premier (1887/2017), the Cochrane Library (Issue 4, April 2017), Science Citation Index Expanded (1900/2017), China National Knowledge Infrastructure (1915/2017), China Biological Medicine (1990/2017-04), WanFang (1980/2017), VIP (1989/2017), and Chinese Science Citation Database (1989/2017). DATA SELECTION: We included randomized controlled trials that aimed to compare the effect of acupuncture plus rehabilitation training versus rehabilitation training alone. Data about functional motor abilities, daily activity/social participation, effective rate, intellectual development, and adverse effects were included. We used Revman 5.2 software for statistical analysis. OUTCOME MEASURES: The primary outcomes included functional motor abilities, daily activity, and effective rate. The secondary outcomes included intellectual development and adverse effects. RESULTS: Twenty-one studies with a total of 1718 participants met the inclusion criteria. The effect size of gross motor function (SMD = 0.64, 95% CI: 0.52 to 0.76, P < 0.00001; I2 = 0%, P = 0.69; in 13 studies with 1144 patients) and the total effective rate (RR = 1.28, 95% CI: 1.20 to 1.37, P < 0.00001; I2 = 18%, P = 0.27; in 12 studies with 1106 patients) suggested that acupuncture plus rehabil...