Visual Analysis of Literature Related to TCM Treatment of Low Back Pain based on Citespace

Abstract

Objective: To understand the research content and progress of low back pain and explore the development trend and hot spots in this field by combing and visualization analysis of the literature on the treatment of low back pain with traditional Chinese medicine. Methods: CNKI was used to search the literature, and CiteSpace software was used to visualize the authors, research institutions and keywords in the field. Results: A total of 748 literatures were included, and the number of published papers increased year by year, began to decline in 2018, and began to rise in 2022. Institutional cooperation took Beijing University of Chinese Medicine as the hub of institutional cooperation. The author cooperation team is mainly composed of Ni Lijun, Zhang Liguo and others. The high-frequency keywords include lumbar disc herniation, traditional Chinese medicine, low back pain, etc. There are 10 keyword clusters, including "pain" and so on. The words with high intermediate centrality were "lumbar disc herniation" and so on. There are 25 prominent words in the emergent analysis, and the emerging hot spots are "lumbar function", "Chinese medicine heat election Bao" and so on. Conclusion: The scope of institutional cooperation and authors' cooperation in this research field is limited. "Famous doctor's experience" and "brain edema" have become research hot spots since 2005 and 2007 respectively, while "hydropneumatosis", "Zhang Zhongjing" and "macular edema" will become new research hot spots.