Fire Acupuncture versus conventional acupuncture to treat spasticity after stroke: A systematic review and meta-analysis

• Xuan Qiu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xuan Qiu, Shuangmei Zhang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: qiuxuan20202020@163.com

  Affiliations Clinical Medical College of Acupuncture, Moxibustion and Rehabilitation, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, GuangZhou, China, Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, GuangZhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2370-0635

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• Yicheng Gao,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Clinical Medical College of Acupuncture, Moxibustion and Rehabilitation, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, GuangZhou, China, Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, GuangZhou, China

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• Zhaoxu Zhang,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Peking University People’s Hospital, Beijing, China

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• Sijia Cheng,

  Roles Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, GuangZhou, China

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• Shuangmei Zhang

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xuan Qiu, Shuangmei Zhang

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliations Department of Rehabilitation, Cancer Hospital of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Zhejiang Cancer Hospital), HangZhou, China, Institute of Cancer and Basic Medicine (IBMC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, HangZhou, China

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