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Using Guasha to Treat Musculoskeletal Pain a Systematic Review of Controlled Clinical Trials

doi: x.1186/1749-8546-5-5.

Using Guasha to treat musculoskeletal pain: a systematic review of controlled clinical trials

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  • DOI: 10.1186/1749-8546-5-5

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Using Guasha to treat musculoskeletal pain: a systematic review of controlled clinical trials

Myeong Soo Lee  et al. Chin Med. .

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Background: Guasha is a therapeutic method for pain management using tools to scrape or rub the surface of the trunk to save claret stagnation. This study aims to systematically review the controlled clinical trials on the effectiveness of using Guasha to treat musculoskeletal pain.

Methods: We searched 11 databases (without language restrictions): MEDLINE, Allied and Complementary Medicine (AMED), EMBASE, Cumulative Alphabetize to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Korean Studies Information (KSI), DBPIA, Korea Institute of Scientific discipline and Engineering science Data (KISTI), KoreaMed, Research Data Service System (RISS), People's republic of china National Noesis Infrastructure (CNKI) and the Cochrane Library. The search strategy was Guasha (OR scraping) AND pain. Risk of bias was assessed with the Cochrane criteria (i.due east. sequence generation, blinding, incomplete outcome measures and allotment concealment).

Results: Five randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and two controlled clinical trials (CCTs) were included in the present written report. Two RCTs compared Guasha with acupuncture in terms of effectiveness, while the other trials compared Guasha with no treatment (1 trial), acupuncture (4 trials), herbal injection (1 trial) and massage or electric current therapy (1 trial). While two RCTs suggested favorable effects of Guasha on pain reduction and response charge per unit, the quality of these RCTs was poor. I CCT reported benign effects of Guasha on musculoskeletal pain simply had low methodological quality.

Conclusion: Electric current evidence is insufficient to testify that Guasha is effective in pain management. Further RCTs are warranted and methodological quality should be improved.

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Flowchart of the choice process for the trials. RCT: randomized controlled trial. CCT: controlled clinical trial. UOS: uncontrolled observational study.

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