Acupuncture for the treatment of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

CONCLUSION: This meta-analysis suggests that acupuncture is an effective and safe treatment for GORD. However, due to the small sample size and poor methodological quality of the included trials, further studies are required to validate our conclusions.
TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: PROSPERO Systematic review registration no. CRD42016041916.
PMID: 28689187 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Acupuncture in Medicine : journal of the British Medical Acupuncture Society - July 8, 2017 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Zhu J, Guo Y, Liu S, Su X, Li Y, Yang Y, Hou L, Wang G, Zhang J, Chen JJ, Wang Q, Wei R, Wei W Tags: Acupunct Med Source Type: research