Traditional Chinese Medicine for Postoperative Care following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Hokyung Chang Hyung Suk Kim Koh-Woon Kim Jae-Heung Cho Mi-Yeon Song Won-Seok Chung

Published in: Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM (2021)

TCM can be used as an adjuvant therapy to conventional rehabilitation for relieving pain, improving ROM and oedema, and facilitating better function of the knee joint after ACLR. However, this recommendation should be cautiously applied in clinical practice owing to the low quality of the included studies.

Keyphrases

anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction
clinical practice
pain management
quality improvement
chronic pain
healthcare
palliative care
patients undergoing
neuropathic pain
case control
affordable care act
spinal cord injury
postoperative pain