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Comparative Effectiveness and Safety of Concomitant Treatment with Chuna Manual Therapy and Usual Care for Whiplash Injuries: A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial
| Content Provider | MDPI |
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| Author | Kim, Byung-Jun Park, A-La Hwang, Man-Suk Park, Sun-Young Cho, Jae-Heung Kim, Koh-Woon Lee, Jun-Hwan Ha, In-Hyuk Park, Kyoung-Sun Hwang, Eui-Hyoung Shin, Byung-Cheul |
| Copyright Year | 2022 |
| Description | 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. |
| Starting Page | 10678 |
| e-ISSN | 16604601 |
| DOI | 10.3390/ijerph191710678 |
| Journal | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health |
| Issue Number | 17 |
| Volume Number | 19 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Publisher Date | 2022-08-27 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Integrative and Complementary Medicine Chuna Manual Therapy Whiplash Injury Multicenter Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Effectiveness Korean Medicine |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
