[Clinical Efficacy and Safety of Heat-sensitive Moxibustion Therapy for Lumbar Disc Herniation:A Meta-analysis].
摘要
OBJECTIVE: To systematically review the effectiveness and safety of heat-sensitive moxibustion (HSM) therapy in the treatment of lumbar disc herniation (LDH). METHODS: Papers of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) concerning the effectiveness and safety of HSM therapy for LDH published in both Chinese and English before November 17, 2015 were collected from PubMed, EMBase, Cochrane library, CNKI, CBM, WanFang Data and VIP databases according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria and by using key words of "thermal moxibustion" "heat-sensitive acupoint" "lumbar intervertebral disc herniation (LIDH)" "lumbar disc herniation (LDH)" and "lumbago backache", followed by screening, data extracting and methodological quality assessing. Then, the Meta-analysis was performed using RevMan 5.3 software. RESULTS: =0.002], and no adverse reactions mentioned in the reported results. The sensitivity analysis showed a greater homogeneity in literature and the results were stable, but funnel plot analysis showed a publication bias. CONCLUSIONS: The HSM therapy is effective and safe in the treatment of LDH patients.