Efficacy and safety of dissimilar acupuncture intervention time-points in treating stroke: a systematic review and network meta-analysis

Background: Impairment of motor function and activities daily living is very common in post-stroke patients. Acupuncture has been used stroke for a long time. Although growing evidence supports the beneficial effects acupuncture, there still no clear conclusion on optimal intervention time-point acupuncture stroke. Thus, we tried to assess efficacy safety dissimilar time-points by network meta-analysis (NMA).