[A traditional Chinese medicine therapy warming meridians to nourish blood in treating XXXX due to soft tissue injury of the neck and shoulder: a randomized controlled trial].

@entity1 @entity1503 @entity3459 @entity4048 @entity158 @entity1118
BACKGROUND: @entity158 due to chronic soft tissue injury of the neck and shoulder is a commonly encountered and frequently occurring condition. Traditional Chinese medicine is a common course of treatment for soft tissue injury and may have better therapeutic effects than biomedical options. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the clinical therapeutic effects of Chinese herbal medicine warming meridians to nourish blood on @entity1118 due to soft tissue injury in the neck and shoulder. DESIGN, SETTING, @entity1 AND INTERVENTIONS: A random and control method was adopted. Sixty-three @entity1 with @entity4048 and shoulder due to chronic soft tissue injury, presenting with @entity1503 and @entity3459 , were randomly divided into treatment group (n=32) and control group (n=31). There was a drop-out case in treatment group. All the @entity1 were collected from the clinic service of the Department of Rehabilitation at the General Hospital of the @entity1 's Liberation Army. @entity1 received oral and written information about clinical procedures before signing their written informed consent. @entity1 in the treatment group were treated with Chinese herbal decoctions for warming meridians to nourish blood and cervical traction. @entity1 in the control group were treated with cervical traction. The course of treatment was 14 days. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: A visual analog scale (VAS) was used to record test data in the two groups before and after treatment, and therapeutic effect was compared after treatment between the two groups. RESULTS: After treatment, VAS scores of the treatment group and the control group were decreased as compared with before treatment (t=5.01, P<0.01; t=4.91, P<0.01). Difference of VAS scores between before and after treatment in the treatment group was higher than that in the control group (t=2.44, P0.05). CONCLUSION: The treatment method of warming meridians to nourish blood combined with cervical traction has better therapeutic effect than only applying traction for @entity1118 due to soft tissue injury of the neck and shoulder.
