Meta-analysis: acupuncture for low back pain

Category Structured summary of systematic reviews
JournalDatabase of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)
Year 2005
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CRD SUMMARY:

This review assessed the effectiveness of acupuncture in the treatment of low back pain. The authors concluded that acupuncture was more effective in relieving chronic pain than sham acupuncture or no additional treatment, but not other active therapies. The review was reasonably well conducted regarding the review methodology. However, the results and conclusions were based only on a subset of studies that met the inclusion criteria and, therefore, may not be reliable.
Epistemonikos ID: fe7fa4c3658edf0b892e0f1537b5643f50d59b98
First added on: Jul 25, 2011