Meta-analysis of the efficacy of external application of Chinese medicine in the treatment of lower limb motor impairment in patients with post-stroke hemiplegia.

Front Neurol · 2025 · PMC12698439 · PMID 41394004

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The fact that the result remains highly significant ( p < 0.00001) with a narrow confidence interval after removing the outliers strengthens the conclusion that TCM external therapy is efficacious, and the initial overall estimate was not merely an artifact of heterogeneous studies.

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