An interventional study of Tuina exercises and Placebo Tuina exercises in Pain, sponsored by Universidade do Porto. Completed. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2015-04-17.
Sponsored by Universidade do Porto · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
Objective: To study the effects of self-administered exercises based on tuina techniques on the pain intensity caused by playing related musculoskeletal disorders (PRMD) of professional orchestra musicians, using numeric visual scale (NVS).
Method: The investigators performed a prospective, controlled, single-blinded, randomized study with musicians suffering from PRMD. n= 69 musicians were randomly distributed into the experimental and into the control group. After an individual diagnostic assessment, specific tuina self-administered exercises were developed and taught to the participants. Musicians were instructed (educated) to repeat the exercises every day during 3 weeks. Pain intensity was measured by NVS before the intervention and after the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 10th, 15th and 20th days of self-exercising. The procedure was the same for the control group, however the Tuina exercises were executed in non-acupuncture points
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Exclusion Criteria:
Self administered exercises were done in real treatment points
Other: Tuina exercises
Self administered exercises were done in false treatment points
Other: Placebo Tuina exercises
Verbal numeric scale
Time frame: At the baseline
Verbal numeric scale
Time frame: After one day
Verbal numeric scale
Time frame: After 3 days
Verbal numeric scale
Time frame: After 5 days
Verbal numeric scale
Time frame: After 10 days
Verbal numeric scale
Time frame: After 15 days
Verbal numeric scale
Time frame: After 20 days
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