School of Nursing, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, GO, Brazil
Review Article
The effect of electroacupuncture on the management of pain and articular function related to primary knee osteoarthritis: systematic review and meta-analysis
Author(s): Virginia Barbeitos Cruz*, Ana Lúcia Junger, Denise Pinheiro Marques Alves dos Santos and Ana Luiza Lima Sousa
Background: Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most prevalent joint disease in the world, causing pain, rigidity, and functional limitation of adults over 45 years.
Objective: We conducted a systematic review to synthesize the results of clinical randomized studies to measure the effectiveness of electroacupuncture (EA) in the management of pain and articular dysfunction in adults with primary knee OA (KOA), Kellgren-Lawrence grades 2 and 3.
Methods: Two independent reviewers searched for interventional clinical studies on the effectiveness of EA published on PubMed, Embase, Scopus, and Web of Science databases between January 2001 and January 2024. The statistical analysis focused on the effect size. Data summarization was performed through specific meta-analyses
for the outcomes of interest. For statistical analysis, R .. View More»
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