@article{ref1,
title="Comparative effectiveness and safety of concomitant treatment with Chuna manual therapy and usual care for whiplash injuries: a multicenter randomized controlled trial",
journal="International journal of environmental research and public health",
year="2022",
author="Kim, Byung-Jun and Park, A.-La and Hwang, Man-Suk and Heo, In and Park, Sun-Young and Cho, Jae-Heung and Kim, Koh-Woon and Lee, Jun-Hwan and Ha, In-Hyuk and Park, Kyoung-Sun and Hwang, Eui-Hyoung and Shin, Byung-Cheul",
volume="19",
number="17",
pages="e10678-e10678",
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. <br><br>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. <br><br>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. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: In patients with subacute whiplash injury, Chuna manual therapy showed a rapid rate of recovery, high effectiveness, and safety.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1661-7827",
doi="10.3390/ijerph191710678",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191710678"
}