Ultrasonographic Evaluation of Acupuncture Effect on Common Extensor Tendon Thickness in Patients with Lateral Epicondylitis: A Randomized Controlled Study

Ural, Fatma Gülçin; Öztürk, Gökhan Tuna; Bölük, Hüma; Akkuş, Selami

doi:10.1089/acm.2016.0370

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“…1). There were 9 RCTs [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] and 18 [25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42] case reports included in the review. The main characteristics of these studies was presented in tables (Tables 2 and 3).…”

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“…There were 9 RCTs [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24], with the highest frequency of treatment sessions in RCTs being 10 sessions [17,20,24], followed by 6 sessions [18,22,23]. There was 1 study with 12 sessons of treatment [16].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In the RCTs, the most used intervention was acupuncture which was used in 6 studies [17][18][19]21,24], followed by electroacupuncture which was used in 2 study cases [20,23], with burning acupuncture [16], and bee venom pharmacopuncture [22] used in 1 study.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In RCTs, acupuncture was statistically significantly and more effective as a treatment in all the evaluation items in 3 case reports [17,19,21] compared to the control group. In 1 study [18], both the experimental group and control group showed a statistically significant reduction in pain index scores when pre-and posttreatment were compared using other evaluation items there was no statistical difference.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The evaluation time in 4 RCT [17,[21][22][23] and 15 case reports [25][26][27][28][29]31,[33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40]42] were assessed immediately after the last treatment. In the studies which conducted follow up appointments after the last treatment, 1 study had a 4-month duration from the start of treatment to last visit [32], and 1 case report had a 6-week duration [30]; 1 had a 2-week duration [18], 1 had a 2-month duration [24], 1 had a 3-month duration [16], 1 had a 6-month duration [19] and 1 had a 24-month duration [20].…”

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A Systematic Review of Acupuncture for Tennis Elbow

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This review analyzed randomized controlled trials and case reports to identify the effectiveness, and level of evidence showing that acupuncture treatment aids the recovery of patients with tennis elbow. A literature search was performed between 1 st to 10 th September, 2019 which used PubMed, the Cochrane library, the Korean databases Oriental Medicine Advanced Searching Integrated System, Korean Studies Information Service System to retrieve Korean and international studies. Amongst the 243 articles retrieved there were 9 randomized controlled trials and 18 case reports. The level of evidence for the recovery of patients with tennis elbow, for efficacy and safety of acupuncture was low. It was observed that the studies had a high risk of bias, missing acupuncture details, multiple combinations of treatments rather than a single treatment, insufficient indicators of assessment, and lacked robustness. Compliance with international standards such as using consolidated standards of reporting trials, will improve the quality of evidence.

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Therapeutic effects of acupuncture plus fire needle versus acupuncture alone in lateral epicondylitis

Chung

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Background: The aim of this study was to compare the short-term and intermediate-term efficacy of acupuncture plus fire needle therapy with that of acupuncture alone in the treatment of lateral epicondylitis (LE). Methods: Thirty-eight patients with LE who had persisted for at least 2 months were enrolled in this prospective, assessor-blinded, randomized controlled pilot trial. Twenty-one patients were randomized to the acupuncture plus fire needle group and 17 to the acupuncture-only group. The primary outcome was the visual analog scale pain score for the previous 24 hours and the secondary outcomes were the maximum grip strength, Patient-rated Forearm Evaluation Questionnaire score, and Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short-form Health Survey score. The values at baseline (pretreatment), at the end of treatment, and at 3 months after treatment were used to assess the short-term and intermediate-term effects of treatment. The data were analyzed using the Chi-square test and t test. Results: Within-group analyses showed better results for acupuncture plus fire needle therapy in the short term and intermediate term. Differences in the severity of pain and secondary outcomes were significant in the intermediate term in the acupuncture group. At the end of treatment, none of the differences in outcome scores were significant, except for maximum grip strength in the affected hand in the acupuncture group. No significant between-group differences in short-term or intermediate-term outcomes were observed. Conclusion: Acupuncture plus fire needle therapy was effective in the short term in patients seeking improvement of LE. Twelve treatments were effective for relieving pain and improving disability in the intermediate term in patients with chronic LE in both study groups. The findings of the pilot study confirm the feasibility of proceeding to a larger randomized controlled study of the longer-term effects of acupuncture plus fire needle therapy in patients with LE.

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Ultrasonographic Evaluation of Acupuncture Effect on Common Extensor Tendon Thickness in Patients with Lateral Epicondylitis: A Randomized Controlled Study

Abstract: These findings show that the CET thickness was reduced after 10 sessions of acupuncture treatment in LE patients.

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A Systematic Review of Acupuncture for Tennis Elbow

A Systematic Review of Acupuncture for Tennis Elbow

Regenerative Medicine for the Elbow

Therapeutic effects of acupuncture plus fire needle versus acupuncture alone in lateral epicondylitis

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