Comment on “Efficacy of Tongdu Tiaoshen Acupuncture Combined with Local Pelvic Floor Acupoints for Pelvic Floor Myofascial Pain Syndrome: A Randomized Controlled Trial Protocol” [Letter]
Minmin Zhang, Wenqi Zhang, Ruijie Ma · 2026
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Minmin Zhang, Wenqi Zhang, and Ruijie Ma wrote a 2026 comment letter on a trial protocol by Ye and co-authors. It tests Tongdu Tiaoshen acupuncture plus local pelvic floor acupoints for pelvic floor myofascial pain syndrome. The planned multi-site trial compares acupuncture against biofeedback and electrical stimulation used jointly, with patients split at random, and the letter writers praise the design before suggesting changes.
Their first point concerns the primary outcome. The protocol merges resting pain and tenderness evoked by pressing trigger points into a single visual analog scale score. That may hide real differences between the two kinds of pain. In this syndrome, pain arising on its own at rest and tenderness when pressed behave in unlike ways, so giving them separately would make the trial's results easier to read. More points follow in the same helpful spirit.
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| CREATOR | Minmin Zhang, Wenqi Zhang, Ruijie Ma |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3355 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |