Acupuncture and dry-needling for low back pain (Review)

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Table 3. Clinical relevance assessment (Continued) Leibing 2002 Y Y Y DK N Lopacz 1979 N N N DK DK Poor description of patients and interventions. MacDonald 1983 Y Y Y Y DK It is not meridian acupuncture and the depth is too superficial. Very small sample size Mendelson 1983 Y Y Y N DK Meng 2003 Y Y Y DK DK Size of effect might be biased by small sample size. Harms were assessed, but should be evaluated in larger sample Molsberger 2002 Y Y Y Y DK Sakai 1998 Y N Y DK DK Not sure about validity of JOA score. Number of points and sessions too small Sakai 2001 Y Y Y N DK Not sure about validity of JOA score. Number of points and sessions too small Takeda 2001 N Y Y N DK Thomas 1994 N Y Y N DK Tsukayama 2002 Y Y Y DK N Von 1988 Mencke Y Y Y Y DK Teh Chi unclear. Wang 1996 Y Y Y Y Y Wu 1991 Y Y Y Y Y Yeung 2003 Y Y Y Y Y Acupuncture and dry-needling for low back pain (Review) Copyright © 2011 The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 122
Table 4. Improvement in pain Comparison group Acute Chronic Unknown / Mixed Acupuncture Number of studies 2 16 8 Average improvement 52% 32% 51% Standard deviation 39% 24% 19% Minimum 25% -17% 22% Maximum 80% 62% 77% No treatment Number of studies 6 Average improvement 6% Standard deviation 25% Minimum -33% Maximum 42% Sham / placebo Number of studies 1 6 3 Average improvement 22% 23% 25% Standard deviation 22% 17% Minimum -19% 6% Maximum 44% 37% Other treatments Number of studies 1 6 3 Average improvement 79% 25% 99% Standard deviation 19% 73% Minimum 0% 41% Maximum 50% 181% Acupuncture and dry-needling for low back pain (Review) Copyright © 2011 The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 123
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Analysis 5.2. Comparison 5 acupunct
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[Intervention Review] Acupuncture a
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Wu 1991 {published data only} Wu YC
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Ceccherelli 2002 Methods Participan
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Ding 1998 Methods Participants Inte
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Grant 1999 Methods Participants Int
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