Application of Acupuncture for Shoulder Pain Over the Past 22 Years: A Bibliometric Analysis

Yu-Ling Chen,1– 3,* Yu-Dan Liang,4,* Kai-Feng Guo,2 Zhen Huang,2 Wen-Qi Feng3 1Rehabilitation Department of the Panyu Central Hospital, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China; 2Rehabilitation Department of the Panyu Central Hospital, Guangzhou...

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Main Authors: Chen YL, Liang YD, Guo KF, Huang Z, Feng WQ
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Published: Dove Medical Press 2023-03-01
Series:Journal of Pain Research
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Online Access:https://www.dovepress.com/application-of-acupuncture-for-shoulder-pain-over-the-past-22-years-a--peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-JPR
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description Yu-Ling Chen,1– 3,* Yu-Dan Liang,4,* Kai-Feng Guo,2 Zhen Huang,2 Wen-Qi Feng3 1Rehabilitation Department of the Panyu Central Hospital, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China; 2Rehabilitation Department of the Panyu Central Hospital, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion of the YiBin Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, YiBin, People’s Republic of China; 4Department of Acupuncture and Rehabilitation, the Affiliated Jiangmen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital of Jinan University, Jiangmen, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Zhen Huang, Rehabilitation Department of the Panyu Central Hospital, No. 8 Fuyu Road, Qiaonan District, Guangzhou, 511400, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86 18922238059, Email Mishz@126.com Wen-Qi Feng, Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion of the YiBin Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, No. 2 Dawan Road, Nanan District, YiBin, 644000, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86 13629031868, Email Moonly1981@163.comPurpose: Acupuncture is widely used to relieve shoulder pain. A survey was conducted in order to recognize hotspots and frontiers of acupuncture for shoulder pain from the year 2000– 2022.Methods: The Web of Science Core Collection was used to collect literature related to acupuncture therapy for shoulder pain, which spanned January 2000 to August 2022. The number of publications yearly, countries/institutions, journals, and keywords was analyzed and visualized in shoulder pain with acupuncture therapy by CiteSpace v.5.7.R5.Results: We totally analyzed 214 articles that met the inclusion criteria. The overall trend of publication volume continues to increase. The most productive authors in the field were César Fernández las Peñas and José L Arias-Buría, and the most influential author was Green S. Kyung Hee University and the People’s Republic of China had the highest volume of publications, respectively. The most influential journal is Pain with high citation and impact factor. The hot keywords were “acupuncture”, “shoulder pain”, “dry needling”, “randomized trial”, and “injection”. The research frontier in acupuncture for treating chronic shoulder pain was mainly “mechanism”.Conclusion: Over the last 22 years, the findings of this bibliometric analysis have provided research trends and frontiers in clinical research on acupuncture therapy for patients with shoulder pain, which identifying hot topics and exploring new directions for the future may be helpful to researchers. Studying mechanisms underlying acupuncture therapy for shoulder pain remains a focus of future research.Keywords: acupuncture, shoulder pain, bibliometric analysis, CiteSpace
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spelling doaj.art-01f6bacc827c427197842af65c3cc9302023-03-14T18:21:58ZengDove Medical PressJournal of Pain Research1178-70902023-03-01Volume 1689390982285Application of Acupuncture for Shoulder Pain Over the Past 22 Years: A Bibliometric AnalysisChen YLLiang YDGuo KFHuang ZFeng WQYu-Ling Chen,1– 3,* Yu-Dan Liang,4,* Kai-Feng Guo,2 Zhen Huang,2 Wen-Qi Feng3 1Rehabilitation Department of the Panyu Central Hospital, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China; 2Rehabilitation Department of the Panyu Central Hospital, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion of the YiBin Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, YiBin, People’s Republic of China; 4Department of Acupuncture and Rehabilitation, the Affiliated Jiangmen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital of Jinan University, Jiangmen, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Zhen Huang, Rehabilitation Department of the Panyu Central Hospital, No. 8 Fuyu Road, Qiaonan District, Guangzhou, 511400, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86 18922238059, Email Mishz@126.com Wen-Qi Feng, Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion of the YiBin Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, No. 2 Dawan Road, Nanan District, YiBin, 644000, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86 13629031868, Email Moonly1981@163.comPurpose: Acupuncture is widely used to relieve shoulder pain. A survey was conducted in order to recognize hotspots and frontiers of acupuncture for shoulder pain from the year 2000– 2022.Methods: The Web of Science Core Collection was used to collect literature related to acupuncture therapy for shoulder pain, which spanned January 2000 to August 2022. The number of publications yearly, countries/institutions, journals, and keywords was analyzed and visualized in shoulder pain with acupuncture therapy by CiteSpace v.5.7.R5.Results: We totally analyzed 214 articles that met the inclusion criteria. The overall trend of publication volume continues to increase. The most productive authors in the field were César Fernández las Peñas and José L Arias-Buría, and the most influential author was Green S. Kyung Hee University and the People’s Republic of China had the highest volume of publications, respectively. The most influential journal is Pain with high citation and impact factor. The hot keywords were “acupuncture”, “shoulder pain”, “dry needling”, “randomized trial”, and “injection”. The research frontier in acupuncture for treating chronic shoulder pain was mainly “mechanism”.Conclusion: Over the last 22 years, the findings of this bibliometric analysis have provided research trends and frontiers in clinical research on acupuncture therapy for patients with shoulder pain, which identifying hot topics and exploring new directions for the future may be helpful to researchers. Studying mechanisms underlying acupuncture therapy for shoulder pain remains a focus of future research.Keywords: acupuncture, shoulder pain, bibliometric analysis, CiteSpacehttps://www.dovepress.com/application-of-acupuncture-for-shoulder-pain-over-the-past-22-years-a--peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-JPRacupunctureshoulder painbibliometric analysiscitespace
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bibliometric analysis
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title Application of Acupuncture for Shoulder Pain Over the Past 22 Years: A Bibliometric Analysis
title_full Application of Acupuncture for Shoulder Pain Over the Past 22 Years: A Bibliometric Analysis
title_fullStr Application of Acupuncture for Shoulder Pain Over the Past 22 Years: A Bibliometric Analysis
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title_short Application of Acupuncture for Shoulder Pain Over the Past 22 Years: A Bibliometric Analysis
title_sort application of acupuncture for shoulder pain over the past 22 years a bibliometric analysis
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shoulder pain
bibliometric analysis
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