Shiatsu for chronic lower back pain: Randomized controlled study
Kobayashi D, Shimbo T, Hayashi H, Takahashi O · Complementary Therapies in Medicine · 2019 January
DOI 10.1016/j.ctim.2019.05.019
Objective
The aim of this study is to investigate the efficacy of Shiatsu therapy for chronic lower back pain.
Conclusions
This study concluded that shiatsu is highly effective for chronic lower back pain. Compared to other complementary alternative medicines and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs treatments, Shiatsu therapy is valuable for improvement of quality of life score (e.g. less long term fatigue) among patients.
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