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Effects of acupoint massage combined with relaxation therapy on patients with postoperative fatigue syndrome after lumbar surgery.
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- Efficacy and safety evaluation of massage combined with traction for lumbar disc herniation: a meta-analysis.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Massage in the application of perioperative medicine: research hotspots and trends.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Effect of intravenous lidocaine on postoperative fatigue syndrome in patients undergoing laparoscopic radical colorectal cancer surgery: a randomized clinical trial.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Impact of pecto-intercostal fascial block on postoperative fatigue in elderly patients undergoing off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting: a randomized clinical trial.International journal of surgery (London, England) · 2025Trial
- Effects of esketamine on postoperative fatigue syndrome in patients after laparoscopic resection of gastric carcinoma: a randomized controlled trial.BMC anesthesiology · 2024Trial
- Knowledge, attitudes, and practices toward postoperative fatigue syndrome among postoperative patients.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Self-efficacy-kinesiophobia correlation in postoperative patients with primary liver cancer: the chain-mediating effect of postoperative fatigue and negative emotions.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Construction of early warning classification of risk in bladder spasm and its intervention plans guided by the rate adjustment card of continuous bladder irrigation after transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP): development and usability study.Translational andrology and urology · 2024Article
- Analysis of acupoint massage combined with touch on relieving anxiety and pain in patients with oral implant surgery.World journal of psychiatry · 2024Article
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Abstract
background: Lumbar disc herniation (LDH) is a common disease in orthopedics. Surgery is shown to provide significant faster relief of pain compared to conservative therapy. However, due to the influence of surgical trauma, anesthesia and other perioperative stress factors, patients may have complications. Among them, postoperative fatigue syndrome (POFS) is a common complication. Traditional Chinese medicine or integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine have been proved to be effective in improving postoperative fatigue.
methods: This study is a randomized controlled trial. One hundred eighty Chinese patients with POFS of LDH will be randomly divided into control group, experimental group 1, experimental group 2 and experimental group 3 according to the ratio of 1:1:1:1. The patients in the control group will be treated with conventional treatment after operation, the patients in the experimental group 1 will be treated with acupoint massage, the patients in the experimental group 2 will be treated with relaxation therapy, and the patients in the experimental group 3 will be treated with acupoint massage combined with relaxation therapy. The whole treatment will last for 5 days. The main outcome measures will be fatigue visual analogue scale and identity-consequence fatigue scale, and the secondary outcome measures will be hospital anxiety and depression scale. DISCUSSION: : This study is to observe the effects of acupoint massage comblined with relaxation therapy on reducing postoperative fatigue of lumbar disc herniation surgical patients.
trial registration: Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (http://www.chictr.org.cn/edit.aspx?pid=123978&htm=4), No. ChiCTR2100044788. Registered on March 27, 2021.
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