• Zuoxiong Miao, Zhenglan Tong, Jinfei Ye, Shihan Leng, Min Wang, Anli Hu, Jingyu Zhang, Xingze Dai, Jiarong Liang, Yunlong Geng, Liang Chen, Bin Ye, and Youkang Dong.
• School of Acupuncture-Tuina and Rehabilitation, Yunnan University of Chinese Medicine, Kunming.
• Medicine (Baltimore). 2021 Jan 8; 100 (1): e24203e24203.

BackgroundLumbar disc herniation (LDH) is an important factor of causing leg pain and numbness. As a secondary discipline of Traditional Chinese Medicine, tuina is widely used for the treatment of LDH in China even in other nations while its clinical value is not acknowledged universally. So, we focus on this article aims to evaluate its efficacy and safety of LDH.MethodsElectronic databases involving Cochrane Library, PubMed, Web of Science, EMBASE, China Science and Technology Journal, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Wanfang and Chinese Biomedical Literature Database will be pertained with appropriate search strategy. And RevMan V.5.3.5 software will be conducted as the assessment tool for bias risk, data synthesis, subgroup analysis as well as meta-analyses.ResultsThis systematic review will provide a high-quality synthesis of current evidence of tuina for LDH.ConclusionThis protocol will determine whether Tuina is an effective and safe treatment method for LDH.Copyright © 2021 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

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