Research Article

Acupuncture for the Treatment of Tension-Type Headache: An Overview of Systematic Reviews

Table 1

Search strategy for the PubMed database.

QuerySearch term

# 1Tension-type headache [mesh]
# 2Tension-type headache∗[title/abstract] OR tension type headache∗[title/abstract] OR idiopathic headache∗[title/abstract] OR stress headache∗[title/abstract] OR tension headache∗[title/abstract] OR psychogenic headache∗[title/abstract]
# 3#1 OR #2
# 4Acupuncture [mesh]
# 5Acupuncture [title/abstract] OR pharmacoacupuncture [title/abstract] OR acupotomy[title/abstract] OR acupotomies [title/abstract] OR pharmacopuncture[title/abstract] OR needle [title/abstract] OR needling [title/abstract] OR dry-needling[title/abstract] OR body-acupuncture [title/abstract] OR electro-acupuncture [title/abstract] OR electro-acupuncture [title/abstract] OR auricular acupuncture [title/abstract]
# 6#4 OR #5
# 7Meta-analysis as topic [mesh]
# 8Meta-analysis [publication type]
# 9Systematic review [title/abstract] OR meta-analysis [title/abstract] OR meta-analysis [title/abstract] OR meta-analyses [title/abstract] OR meta-analysis [title/abstract]
# 10#7 OR #8 OR #9
# 11#3 AND #6 AND #10