Tui Na for Chronic Nonspecific Low Back Pain: Protocol for a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Juan Yang   ^{1 *} , MD, PhD ;   Jeffrey S. Brault   ^{2 *} , MD ;   Mark A. Jensen   ^{2 *} , PT ;   Alexander Do   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Qingyu Ma   ^{3 *} , MD, PhD ;   Xuan Zhou   ^{3 *} , MD, PhD ;   Longbin Shen   ^{4 *} , MD ;   Canghuan Zhao   ^{4 *} , MD ;   Kwok Chee Philip Cheong   ^{5 *} , MD ;   Kejie He   ^{4 *} , MD ;   Yu Guo   ^{3 *} , MD, PhD ;   Zhuoming Chen   ^{4 *} , MD, PhD ;   Shujie Tang   ^{6 *} , MD, PhD ;   Yong Tang   ^{6 *} , MD, PhD ;   Celia Ia Choo Tan   ^{7 *} , MD ;   Jiaxu Chen   ^{3 *} , MD, PhD ;   Brent A. Bauer   ^{1 *} , MD

¹ Division of General Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States

² Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States

³ Formula-pattern Research Center, School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

⁴ Department of Acupuncture, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

⁵ School of Physiotherapy and Exercise Science, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore

⁶ Department of Orthopedics, College of Chinese Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

⁷ Allied Health, SingHealth Group, Singapore, Singapore

*all authors contributed equally