Acupuncture for Thalamic Pain After Stroke

Eight Chinese and English databases including China National Knowledge Infrastructure Database, China Science and Technology Journal Database (VIP), Wanfang Database (CECDB), PubMed, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, Embase and karge were searched by computer, and the search time was from the establishment of the database to June 25, 2022. Using the combination of subject headings and free words, the retrieval strategy is adjusted according to the database. Taking PubMed as an example, the following key words were used for the literature search: (((((((((((((((Thalamic Diseases [MeSH Terms]) OR (thalamic pain)) OR (thalamic pain syndrome)) OR (central poststroke pain)) AND (stroke [MeSH Terms])) OR (Cerebrovascular Accident)) OR (CVA)) OR (Cerebrovascular Apoplexy)) OR (Brain Vascular Accident)) OR (Cerebrovascular Stroke)) AND (Acupuncture [MeSH Terms])) OR (Electroacupuncture [EA] [MeSH Terms]))) OR ((acupunct* [Title/Abstract])) OR (electro acupuncture)) AND ((Randomized Controlled Trial [Publication Type])) OR (random* [Title/Abstract])) OR (placebo [Title/Abstract]).