• Yangshengjie Liu, Xuejiao Bai, Hongshi Zhang, Xiaoyu Zhi, Jundong Jiao, Quanwu Wang, Yuanyuan Ji, Xu Zheng, Xinlu Zhang, Xue Tong, Jiayi Liu, Yahui Sun, and Peng Liu.
• Department of Acupuncture and Tuina, Changchun University of Chinese Medicine, Changchun, China.
• Medicine (Baltimore). 2022 Feb 25; 101 (8): e28900.

BackgroundInsomnia is a common diseases of the elderly, tuina is a widely used treatment. At present, there is a lack of supportive evidence on efficacy and safety of tuina for senile insomnia. The purpose of this systematic review is to assess the effectiveness and safety of tuina therapy in the treatment of senile insomnia.MethodsLiterature on tuina for senile insomnia in the PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, Cochrane, China National Knowledge Infrastructure Database, Wanfang, Chinese Scientific and Journal Database, Japanese medical database, Korean Robotics Institute Summer Scholars, and Thai-Journal Citation Index Center will be conducted to search from the creation of these databases. We will search the databases from the beginning to January 2022. The primary outcome was the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index score, and the secondary outcomes included clinical efficacy and safety. RevMan 5.4.1 will be used for the meta-analysis.ResultsThis study aimed to will prove the effectiveness and safety of tuina therapy for the treatment of insomnia in the elderly.ConclusionThis study provides up-to-date evidence of the effectiveness and safety of tuina for the treatment of senile insomnia.Inplasy Registration NumberINPLASY2021110063.Ethics And CommunicationThis systematic review will evaluate the effectiveness and safety of massage therapy for insomnia in the elderly population. As all the included data have been published, systematic reviews do not require ethical approval.Copyright © 2022 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

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