OBJECTIVETo evaluate the safety and efficacy of the manipulation treatment for vertebral artery type of cervical spondylosis and analyze the current status of clinical study.

METHODSTo retrievie the PubMed, OVID, Cochrane library, CBM-disc database, CNKI database, VIP database, 265 literatures of the manipulation treatment of vertebral artery type of cervical spondylosis were collected, including 251 literatures Chinese and 14 literatures English. Among the literatures, 5 studies of Chinese literatures accorded with inclusion criteria. Cochrane systematic review was used to quality evaluation; and 5 studies were used RevMan 4.2 for Meta analysis of literature.

RESULTSFive documents included a total of 736 patients. Summary of the literature combined OR for the cure rate was 2.93, 95% CI was [2.10,4.08]. Summary OR for the combined efficiency was 3.99, 95% CI was [2.47,6.44]. Manipulation group's cure rate of vertebral artery type of cervical spondylosis was efficient and clearly superior to the other therapies. Expect of the manipulation, the traction and the drugs, hereinafter referred to as "other therapies" (P < 0.01).

CONCLUSIONAt present, documents included in this study have shown that manipulation treatment on vertebral artery type of cervical spondylosis is safe, both cure rate and the effective rate are much better than other therapies; but the incorporation of a limited number of documents and the quality is not very high, the conclusion is still uncertain, high-quality evidence should be needed to be further validated.