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

ABSTRACT:

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)

SUBMITTER: Kim BJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9518174 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature