Medicine
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Meta Analysis
Electroacupuncture for patients with spasticity after stroke: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis.
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of electroacupuncture in the treatment of spasticity after stroke. ⋯ CRD42021220300.
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Preoperative chemoradiotherapy combined with radical resection has reduced local recurrence rates in rectal cancer. Cetuximab shows improvement in rectal cancer treatment. But the role for neoadjuvant therapy of cetuximab combined with chenmoradiotherapy in rectal cancer remains unclear. The present study aimed to use meta-analytical techniques to assess its benefit and risk. ⋯ Neoadjuvant therapy of cetuximab combined with chemoradiotherapy could not improve pCR. The raise of R0-resection rate needed to be verified by more high-quality and well-designed RCTs. Meanwhile, the morbidity of toxicity was relatively mild and acceptable.
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The postoperative pain associated with total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is severe for most patients. The analgesic efficacy and safety of preoperative use of selective cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitors for patients undergoing TKA are unclear. ⋯ INPLASY202090101.
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Competition anxiety is also known as pre-competition anxiety (PCA), because this anxiety state often occurs before the athletes face the competition. If it is not adjusted in time, which will greatly affect the performance of athletes, even the mental health and physical health of athletes. Therefore, the selection of appropriate methods to intervene the athletes, reducing the PCA of athletes, and it has an important effect on the competition performance of athletes. Therefore, based on the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine and sports psychology principles, this study adopts a way of systematic evaluation to study the effect of health-care Qigong Baduanjin (HCQB) combined with auricular point sticking (APS)in the treatment of athletes' PCA (APA), the purpose is to help the majority of athletes to eliminate the PCA. ⋯ 2021 CRD42021228254.
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To systematically evaluate the efficacy of teriparatide and bisphosphonates in preventing fractures in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis. ⋯ Based on the results of our meta-analysis, teriparatide was better than bisphosphonates in preventing fractures in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis both in the short-term and long-term follow-up periods. Teriparatide was superior to bisphosphonates in preventing vertebral and non-vertebral fractures. These drugs did not differ in terms of their adverse effects. More high-quality studies are needed to compare other factors such as costs and adverse reactions.