Acupuncture for Treating Whiplash Associated Disorder: A Systematic Review of Randomised Clinical Trials
Joint Authors
Moon, Tae-Woong
Posadzki, Paul
Choi, Tae-Young
Park, Tae-Yong
Kim, Hye-Jung
Ernst, Edzard
Lee, Myeong Soo
Source
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Issue
Vol. 2014, Issue 2014 (31 Dec. 2014), pp.1-10, 10 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2014-05-08
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
10
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
The aim of this systematic review was to determine the effectiveness of acupuncture for the treatment of whiplash associated disorder (WAD).
Twenty databases were searched from their inceptions to Oct.
2013.
Randomised clinical trials (RCTs) of acupuncture (AT), electroacupuncture (EA), or dry needling (DN) for the treatment of WAD were considered eligible.
The risk of bias was assessed using the Cochrane tool.
Six RCTs met the inclusion criteria.
Most of the included RCTs have serious methodological flaws.
Four of the RCTs showed effectiveness of AT, AT in addition to usual care (UC), AT in addition to herbal medicine (HM) or EA was more effective than relaxation, sham EA, sham EA in addition to HM or UC for conditioned pain modulation (CPM) and alleviating pain.
In one RCT, DN in addition to physiotherapy (PT) had no effect compared to sham-DN in addition to PT for the reduction of pain.
None of the RCTs showed that AT/EA/DN was more effective than various types of control groups in reducing disability/function.
One RCT did not report between-group comparisons of any outcome measures.
The evidence for the effectiveness of AT/EA/DN for the treatment of WAD is limited.
Therefore, more research in this area is warranted.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Moon, Tae-Woong& Posadzki, Paul& Choi, Tae-Young& Park, Tae-Yong& Kim, Hye-Jung& Lee, Myeong Soo…[et al.]. 2014. Acupuncture for Treating Whiplash Associated Disorder: A Systematic Review of Randomised Clinical Trials. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine،Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1035833
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Moon, Tae-Woong…[et al.]. Acupuncture for Treating Whiplash Associated Disorder: A Systematic Review of Randomised Clinical Trials. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine No. 2014 (2014), pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1035833
American Medical Association (AMA)
Moon, Tae-Woong& Posadzki, Paul& Choi, Tae-Young& Park, Tae-Yong& Kim, Hye-Jung& Lee, Myeong Soo…[et al.]. Acupuncture for Treating Whiplash Associated Disorder: A Systematic Review of Randomised Clinical Trials. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2014. Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1035833
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1035833