• Lingzhi Wei, Qi Tong, Yue Liu, Xinju Hou, and Fang Zhi.
• Nanchang Hongdu Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jiangxi Province, China.
• Medicine (Baltimore). 2022 Jan 7; 101 (1): e28050.

BackgroundStenosing tenosynovitis (STS) is a chronic aseptic inflammation caused by mechanical friction. The main clinical manifestations are local pain and limited activity of the affected parts, which reduce people's quality of life. The clinical effect of acupotomy in the treatment of STS is significant, and the operation is simple and the side effect is small. But there are many kinds of acupotomology, and there is a lack of comparative study between different Acupotomology. In this study, the effectiveness of 4 commonly used needle knife therapies (v-knife, oblique knife, crochet knife, flat knife) was ranked by the method of network meta.MethodsCNKI, Wanfang, VIP, Sinomed, PubMed, and Cochrane Library were searched to collect randomized controlled trials of v-knife, oblique knife, crochet knife, and flat knife in the treatment of STS. The search time limit is from the date of establishment to October 15, 2021. Revman5.3, gemtc 0.14.3, and stata14.2 were used for data analysis, and Cochrane bias risk assessment tool was used to screen and evaluate the quality of included literatures.ConclusionObjective to provide evidence-based medicine evidence for clinical selection of the best needle knife treatment scheme for STS.Copyright © 2022 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

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