Comparative Effectiveness and Safety of Concomitant Treatment with Chuna Manual Therapy and Usual Care for Whiplash Injuries : A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial

OBJECTIVES: We aimed to compare the effectiveness and safety of Chuna manual therapy combined with usual care to those of usual care alone for treating whiplash injuries.

DESIGN: A two-arm, parallel, assessor-blinded, multicenter pragmatic randomized clinical trial.

SETTING: Three hospitals in Korea.

PARTICIPANTS: Overall, 132 participants between 19 and 70 years of age, involved in traffic accidents and treated at three hospitals in Korea, >2 but <13 weeks prior to enrollment, with neck pain consistent with whiplash-associated disorder grades I and II and a numeric rating scale score ≥5 were included.

INTERVENTIONS: Participants were equally and randomly allocated to the Chuna manual therapy and usual care (n = 66) or usual care (n = 66) groups and underwent corresponding treatment for three weeks.

PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES: The primary outcome was the number of days to achieve a 50% pain reduction. Secondary outcomes included areas under the 50% numeric rating scale reduction curve: pain, disability, quality of life, and safety.

RESULTS: The Chuna manual therapy + usual care group (23.31 ± 21.36 days; p = 0.01) required significantly fewer days to achieve 50% pain reduction compared to the usual care group (50.41 ± 48.32 days; p = 0.01). Regarding pain severity, functional index, and quality of life index, Chuna manual therapy and usual care were more effective than usual care alone. Safety was acceptable in both groups.

CONCLUSIONS: In patients with subacute whiplash injury, Chuna manual therapy showed a rapid rate of recovery, high effectiveness, and safety.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:19

Enthalten in:

International journal of environmental research and public health - 19(2022), 17 vom: 27. Aug.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kim, Byung-Jun [VerfasserIn]
Park, A-La [VerfasserIn]
Hwang, Man-Suk [VerfasserIn]
Heo, In [VerfasserIn]
Park, Sun-Young [VerfasserIn]
Cho, Jae-Heung [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Koh-Woon [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Jun-Hwan [VerfasserIn]
Ha, In-Hyuk [VerfasserIn]
Park, Kyoung-Sun [VerfasserIn]
Hwang, Eui-Hyoung [VerfasserIn]
Shin, Byung-Cheul [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Chuna manual therapy
Comparative effectiveness
Journal Article
Korean medicine
Multicenter Study
Multicenter pragmatic randomized controlled trial
Randomized Controlled Trial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Whiplash injury

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 13.09.2022

Date Revised 11.01.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/ijerph191710678

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM345954718