Acupuncture and related interventions for carpal tunnel syndrome: systematic review.

Irene Xy WuVictor Ck LamRobin St HoWilliam K W CheungRegina Ws SitLi-Wei ChouYan ZhangTing-Hung LeungVincent Ch Chung

Published in: Clinical rehabilitation (2019)

For both symptom relief and function improvement, manual acupuncture is superior to ibuprofen while electroacupuncture plus splinting outperforms splinting alone. Limited evidence showed electroacupuncture's potential role in pain reduction.

Keyphrases

neuropathic pain
systematic review
meta analyses
chronic pain
spinal cord
spinal cord injury
cerebral ischemia
pain management
physical activity
postoperative pain
randomized controlled trial
blood brain barrier
brain injury
patient reported
drug induced