Research Trends of Acupuncture Therapy on Myofascial Pain Syndrome from 2000 to 2022: A Bibliometric Analysis
Fengyan Lu,1,2,* Peizhong Ren,3,* Quanai Zhang,1,2 Xiaomei Shao1,2 1The Third Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, People’s Republic of China; 2The Third Clinical Medical College of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou...
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| description | Fengyan Lu,1,2,* Peizhong Ren,3,* Quanai Zhang,1,2 Xiaomei Shao1,2 1The Third Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, People’s Republic of China; 2The Third Clinical Medical College of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, People’s Republic of China; 3The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Xiaomei Shao, Email 1318509375@163.comBackground: Acupuncture has been widely used to relieve myofascial pain syndromes (MPS) in many countries. However, the bibliometric analysis of the global application of acupuncture for MPS remains unknown.Purpose: The present study aims to evaluate the research trends and hot spots of acupuncture for MPS.Methods: Literatures about acupuncture for MPS from 2000 to 2022 were obtained from the Web of Science. CiteSpace (6.1.R3) was used to analyze the number of publications, countries, institutions, authors, cited journals, cited authors, cited references and keywords.Results: A total of 403 records were included in the final analysis. The total number of publications increased but with some fluctuations. The Pain was the most cited journals. The most productive country and institution were USA, and China Medicine University, respectively. Liwei Chou was the most prolific author, and Simons DG ranked first in the cited author. In the ranking of frequency and centrality in cited references, the first article was published by Tough EA and Simons DG, respectively. The keyword of “acupuncture” ranked first in frequency, “double blind” ranked first in centrality. “Meta-analysis” was the keyword with the strongest citation burst. There were three hot topics in this field, including “the clinical feature of MPS”, “measure of intervention” and “research method”. The mechanism of acupuncture on MPS was one of the main research directions.Conclusion: This study reveals that acupuncture was more and more acceptable, while the cooperation between different countries, institutions and authors should be strengthened. The researches of therapeutic effect and mechanism were the main research directions. More high-quality clinical trials are needed to confirm the therapeutic effect of acupuncture for MPS, and more studies to unify the acupuncture parameters such as frequency, duration, and intensity. More basic studies are needed to elucidate the precise mechanism of acupuncture for MPS.Keywords: acupuncture, myofascial pain syndromes, bibliometric analysis, CiteSpace |
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| spelling | doaj.art-63c5311f07414956a96ed141192133912023-03-21T18:11:20ZengDove Medical PressJournal of Pain Research1178-70902023-03-01Volume 161025103882435Research Trends of Acupuncture Therapy on Myofascial Pain Syndrome from 2000 to 2022: A Bibliometric AnalysisLu FRen PZhang QShao XFengyan Lu,1,2,* Peizhong Ren,3,* Quanai Zhang,1,2 Xiaomei Shao1,2 1The Third Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, People’s Republic of China; 2The Third Clinical Medical College of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, People’s Republic of China; 3The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Xiaomei Shao, Email 1318509375@163.comBackground: Acupuncture has been widely used to relieve myofascial pain syndromes (MPS) in many countries. However, the bibliometric analysis of the global application of acupuncture for MPS remains unknown.Purpose: The present study aims to evaluate the research trends and hot spots of acupuncture for MPS.Methods: Literatures about acupuncture for MPS from 2000 to 2022 were obtained from the Web of Science. CiteSpace (6.1.R3) was used to analyze the number of publications, countries, institutions, authors, cited journals, cited authors, cited references and keywords.Results: A total of 403 records were included in the final analysis. The total number of publications increased but with some fluctuations. The Pain was the most cited journals. The most productive country and institution were USA, and China Medicine University, respectively. Liwei Chou was the most prolific author, and Simons DG ranked first in the cited author. In the ranking of frequency and centrality in cited references, the first article was published by Tough EA and Simons DG, respectively. The keyword of “acupuncture” ranked first in frequency, “double blind” ranked first in centrality. “Meta-analysis” was the keyword with the strongest citation burst. There were three hot topics in this field, including “the clinical feature of MPS”, “measure of intervention” and “research method”. The mechanism of acupuncture on MPS was one of the main research directions.Conclusion: This study reveals that acupuncture was more and more acceptable, while the cooperation between different countries, institutions and authors should be strengthened. The researches of therapeutic effect and mechanism were the main research directions. More high-quality clinical trials are needed to confirm the therapeutic effect of acupuncture for MPS, and more studies to unify the acupuncture parameters such as frequency, duration, and intensity. More basic studies are needed to elucidate the precise mechanism of acupuncture for MPS.Keywords: acupuncture, myofascial pain syndromes, bibliometric analysis, CiteSpacehttps://www.dovepress.com/research-trends-of-acupuncture-therapy-on-myofascial-pain-syndrome-fro-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-JPRacupuncturemyofascial pain syndromesbibliometric analysiscitespace |
| spellingShingle | Lu F Ren P Zhang Q Shao X Research Trends of Acupuncture Therapy on Myofascial Pain Syndrome from 2000 to 2022: A Bibliometric Analysis Journal of Pain Research acupuncture myofascial pain syndromes bibliometric analysis citespace |
| title | Research Trends of Acupuncture Therapy on Myofascial Pain Syndrome from 2000 to 2022: A Bibliometric Analysis |
| title_full | Research Trends of Acupuncture Therapy on Myofascial Pain Syndrome from 2000 to 2022: A Bibliometric Analysis |
| title_fullStr | Research Trends of Acupuncture Therapy on Myofascial Pain Syndrome from 2000 to 2022: A Bibliometric Analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Research Trends of Acupuncture Therapy on Myofascial Pain Syndrome from 2000 to 2022: A Bibliometric Analysis |
| title_short | Research Trends of Acupuncture Therapy on Myofascial Pain Syndrome from 2000 to 2022: A Bibliometric Analysis |
| title_sort | research trends of acupuncture therapy on myofascial pain syndrome from 2000 to 2022 a bibliometric analysis |
| topic | acupuncture myofascial pain syndromes bibliometric analysis citespace |
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