Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Using Guasha to treat musculoskeletal pain: A systematic review of controlled clinical trials. | Lee et al. Chinese Medicine 2010 5 5 http content 5 1 5 CHINESE MEDICINE REVIEW Open Access Using Guasha to treat musculoskeletal pain A systematic review of controlled clinical trials Myeong Soo Lee Tae-Young Choi Jong-In Kim Sun-Mi Choi Abstract Background Guasha is a therapeutic method for pain management using tools to scrape or rub the surface of the body to relieve blood 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 Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature CINAHL Korean Studies Information KSI DBPIA Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information KISTI KoreaMed Research Information Service System RISS China National Knowledge Infrastructure CNKI and the Cochrane Library. The search strategy was Guasha OR scraping AND pain. Risk of bias was assessed with the Cochrane criteria . sequence generation blinding incomplete outcome measures and allocation concealment . Results Five randomized controlled trials RCTs and two controlled clinical trials CCTs were included in the present study. 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 rate the quality of these RCTs was poor. One CCT reported beneficial effects of Guasha on musculoskeletal pain but had low methodological quality. Conclusion Current evidence is insufficient to show that Guasha is effective in pain management. Further RCTs are warranted and methodological quality should be improved. Background Guasha was defined as a therapeutic modality that uses several tools to scrape or rub .
