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JOURNAL OF ACUPUNCTURE AND TUINA SCIENCE
Volume 18, Issue 1, Pages 59-66Publisher
SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG
DOI: 10.1007/s11726-020-1158-z
Keywords
Bone Setting and Tuina; Bone Setting Manipulation; Massage; Exercise Therapy; Low Back Pain; Visual Analog Scale; Pain Measurement; Electromyography; R244; 1; A
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- Key Project of Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province Education Office [KJ2018A0273]
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Objective To evaluate the clinical efficacy of sinew-regulating bone-setting manipulations plus exercise therapy in treating chronic non-specific low back pain (CNLBP). Methods A total of 65 CNLBP patients were divided into two groups by the random number table method. Thirty-three cases in the treatment group were intervened by sinew-regulating bone-setting manipulations plus exercise therapy; 32 cases in the control group were intervened by medium-frequency electrotherapy plus exercise therapy. Before and after treatment, visual analog scale (VAS), dynamic and static muscle endurance of low back, median frequency (MF) of surface electromyography (sEMG) and Oswestry disability index (ODI) were used to evaluate the low back function. The therapeutic efficacy was estimated after treatment. Results The two groups each had 2 dropouts during the study. The total effective rate was 90.3% in the treatment group versus 66.7% in the control group, and the between-group difference was statistically significant (P<0.05). After treatment, the VAS score, dynamic and static muscle endurance of low back, MF of sEMG and ODI score all changed significantly in both groups (all P<0.05); all the items in the treatment group were significantly different from those in the control group (all P<0.05). Conclusion Sinew-regulating bone-setting manipulations plus exercise therapy can effectively release pain in CNLBP patients, increase muscle endurance of the low back and improve the quality of life, and its therapeutic efficacy is more significant than that of medium-frequency electrotherapy plus exercise therapy.
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