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Role of Acupuncture Therapy Assignment

   

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Running head: ROLE OF ACUPUNCTURE TO REDUCE CHRONIC BACK PAINROLE OF ACUPUNCTURE TO REDUCE CHRONIC BACK PAINName of the StudentName of the universityAuthor’s note
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1ROLE OF ACUPUNCTURE TO REDUCE CHRONIC BACK PAINPART APICO: Is acupuncture therapy more effective in mitigating lower back pain than anti-inflammatory non steroidal medicines?The article by Weib et al.,2013, focuses on the effectiveness of the additionalacupuncture in patients suffering from chronic lower back pain. It consist of a randomized trialof two groups (A and B), where both the groups were receiving rehabilitation regimen as per theGerman guidelines. But group A was receiving acupuncture twice weekly, by two Chinesephysicians having knowledge about traditional Chinese medicine. This article can be positionedon level II as per the hierarchy of evidence. The publishing year of this article is 2013, whichindicates a high currency of evidence. This article helps one to understand the advantages or thedisadvantage of using the acupuncture therapy and also helps one to compare it with othertherapies. The paper gives detailed information regarding the mechanism of acupuncture inrelieving pain. All these qualities made this article suitable for addressing my PICO.This article byLee et al., 2013 is a systematic review on a randomized control trial whichmeasured the effectiveness of acupuncture therapy over the anti-inflammatory non –steroidaldrugs in treating lumber pain, lumbago and lumber strain. This paper have been accessed fromthe CINAHL database by advance searching method and this paper belongs to level II of thehierarchy of evidences and the currency of the evidence is high as it was published in 2012. Theresult of this systematic review indicates towards evidences that were inconclusive. Thereforethe current findings can only be confirmed by future researches. As this paper provides me with
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2ROLE OF ACUPUNCTURE TO REDUCE CHRONIC BACK PAINan unbiased result regarding the effectiveness of acupuncture, the paper is suitable for myresearch.The article by Trigkilidas (2010) is a systematic review where fifteen randomized trials havebeen identified by searching the Pubmed database where only four articles have been criticallyappraised. The randomized trials included the patients who were receiving treatments from twocenters for 5-12 months. The article supports the fact that acupuncture can be applied to treatchronic back pain. The article lies in hierarchy II of evidence. It is a multicentre trial wherecomparisons have been made between the various types of Acupuncture therapy. Thus itprovides us with a broader knowledge about the topic. Its publishing year is 2010, which makesthe article reliable for my PICO question.PART BQuestion: Is acupuncture therapy more effective in mitigating lower back pain than anti-inflammatory non steroidal medicines?Chronic low back pain is common after an age. There are certain reasons that can give rise tochronic back pain, one can have herniated discs, where a part of the spinal disc is pushed in tothe nearby nerves. If the spaces between the spinal nerves become narrow, this can also lead tospinal stenosis (Cherkin et al., 2003). Acupuncture has emerged popularly among the alternativetherapies for mitigating the back pain. As per the article by Trigkilidas (2010) the increased popularity of the acupuncture has led to theformation of the NCE guidelines, where a course of acupuncture is offered as per the treatmentoption for the patient. This paper is a systematic review of the controlled trials which focuses onproving the effectiveness of acupuncture for the in treating the lower back pain. The paper also
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