Trial reportBioMed research international2014
Thai massage, and Thai herbal compress versus oral ibuprofen in symptomatic treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee: a randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in BioMed research international, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 40 citations in OpenAlex.
- Chinese herbal medicine for chronic pain: a bibliometric analysis based on integrated databases (2011-2024).Frontiers in medicine · 2025Pooled it
- The effects of manual therapy in pain and safety of patients with knee osteoarthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Efficacy of commonly prescribed analgesics in the management of osteoarthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Rheumatology international · 2018Pooled it
- The Distinction of Hot Herbal Compress, Hot Compress, and Topical Diclofenac as Myofascial Pain Syndrome Treatment.Journal of evidence-based integrative medicineTrial
- Efficacy of Phlai (Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Beyond conventional care: exploring complementary and alternative medicine for autoimmune disorders.Reumatologia · 2025Review
- Consensus Guidelines on Interventional Therapies for Knee Pain (STEP Guidelines) from the American Society of Pain and Neuroscience.Journal of pain research · 2022Review
- A Randomized Controlled Trial of Thai Medicinal Plant-4 Cream versus Diclofenac Gel in the Management of Symptomatic Osteoarthritis of the Knee.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2022Article
- Clinical effects of thai herbal compress: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2015Review
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to verify the clinical responses to Thai massage (TM) and Thai herbal compression (THC) for treating osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee in comparison to oral ibuprofen. This study was a randomized, evaluator-blind, controlled trial. Sixty patients with OA of the knee were randomly assigned to receive either a one-hour session of TM or THC (three times weekly) or oral ibuprofen (three times daily). The duration of treatment was three weeks. The clinical assessments included visual analog scale assessing pain and stiffness, Lequesne's functional index, time for climbing up ten steps, and physician's and patient's overall opinions on improvement. In a within-group comparison, each treatment modality caused a significant improvement of all variables determined for outcome assessments. In an among group comparison, all modalities provided nearly comparable clinical efficacy after a three-week symptomatic treatment of OA of the knee, in which a trend toward greatest improvement was likely to be found in THC group. In conclusion, TM and THC generally provided comparable clinical efficacy to oral ibuprofen after three weeks of treatment and could be considered as complementary and alternative treatments for OA of the knee.
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