Deep Tissue Massage on Stiff-neck Syndrome

Summary

This is a randomized controlled study . The objective is to observe the therapeutic effects of dredging three yang meridians of hand with deep tissue massage on stiff-neck syndrome.

Methods: patients with stiff-neck syndrome were randomly divided into meridian group and paste group.The meridian group were treated once a day for 3 days and the paste group therapy was a 3 courses therapy（ one course includes 24-hour rest and 24-hour paste）. After 3 courses, pain was assessed by visual analogue scale (VAS), the therapeutic effects were compared between the two groups in every stage of the therapy and the self-controlled study.The evaluation criteria on stiff-neck syndrome is based on criteria of diagnostic and therapeutic effect of orthopaedic and traumatologic diseases and syndromes in traditional Chinese medicine . Cure: Absence of neck-stiff, neck sore and free functional activities. Improvement: partially functional activities with light to moderate pain. Failure: No improvement or alleviation of neck stiff and agony. All data will be analyzed by SPSS 16.0, the statistical difference is considered if the P\<0.05 and the significant difference is considered if the P\<0.01 .

Conditions

• Massage
• Meridian
• Pain

Interventions

OTHER

the paste group

Patients in the paste group were treated with Nanxing paste on the affected region include shoulder, neck or back and no more than 3 pieces. The paste lasted for 24 hours and then peeled it rested the pasted region for 24 hours and changed another paste on the pain region. The therapy duration was 6 days.

OTHER

the meridian group

Patients in the meridian group were treated with dredging the same side three yang meridian techniques(include the gliding techniques of deep tissue massage on three yang meridians of back hand (the second, fourth and fifth metacarpal bone); pinching and kneading the second, fourth and fifth phalanges of fingers of the affected side hand; Encourage the patient to try his best to roll his neck to the most tolerable degree during dredging the meridian) and the total time was about 3 to 5 minutes according the tolerance of every patient . The massage will not stop until the meridian route was relatively smooth, soft and thermal or light red. The sequence of massage is Hand Yangming meridian(LI) the first, Hand Taiyang meridian(SI) the second and Hand Sanjiao(SJ) the last. The frequency of massage was once a day.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Lingyun Zhang, Master · The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University

• Xue Jing, Doctor · The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University

• Xiaoju Peng, Doctor · The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University

• Ying Liu, no · The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University

• Xueguo Sun, Doctor · The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

14 Years

Max Age

60 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2019-03-01

Primary Completion

2021-05-01

Completion

2021-05-01

Countries

• China

Study Locations