Meta analysis of acupuncture for lower back pain

Objective: Meta analysis of the clinical efficacy of acupuncture in the treatment of lower back pain (LBP) Method: Computer retrieval of PubMed, EmBase, The Cochrane Library, China Biomedical Literature Database (CBM), CNKI, VIP (VIP) and Wanfang Database ( Wanfang Data), a randomized controlled trial (RCT) for comparing acupuncture with other therapies to treat patients with LBP, based on the inclusion of exclusion criteria, independent screening of literature, extraction of information and evaluation of methodological quality in the study, through the RevMan 5.2 software on RVAS, ODI, JOA, MDQ and other scoring changes made Meta Analysis. Results: Final inclusion of 10 RCTs for a total of 751 patients.Meta Analysis Results showed: Improvement of VAS score in the acupuncture treatment group alone than in the non-acupuncture treatment group [RR=-1.32; 95% CI (-1.41, -1.22); Z=27.28; P≈ 0.000 01]; ODI score improvement in the acupuncture treatment group Better than non-acupuncture treatment Group [RR=-5.07; 95% CI (-7.50, -2.65); Z=4.10; P≈ 0.000 1]; JOA score improvement in acupuncture therapy group alone compared to non-acupuncture treatment group [RR=2.83; 95% CI (2.02,3.63); Z=6.90; P≈ 0.000 01]; RMDQ score in acupuncture treatment group Improvement better than non- Acupuncture treatment group [RR=-2.80; 95% CI (-3.49, -2.11); Z=7.95; P≈ 0.000 01]. Conclusion: Acupuncture therapy alone has some efficacy and advantage in improving pain symptoms and lower back dysfunction in lower back pain patients.