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2022 Jan 07


Medicine (Baltimore)


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Different acupotomy for stenosing tenosynovitis: A protocol for systematic review and network meta-analysis.

Authors

Wei L, Tong Q, Liu Y, Hou X, Zhi F
Medicine (Baltimore). 2022 Jan 07; 101(1):e28050.
PMID: 35029874.

Abstract

Stenosing tenosynovitis (STS) is a chronic aseptic inflammation caused by mechanical friction. The main clinical manifestations are local pain and limited activity of the affected parts, which reduce people's quality of life. The clinical effect of acupotomy in the treatment of STS is significant, and the operation is simple and the side effect is small. But there are many kinds of acupotomology, and there is a lack of comparative study between different Acupotomology. In this study, the effectiveness of 4 commonly used needle knife therapies (v-knife, oblique knife, crochet knife, flat knife) was ranked by the method of network meta.