Efficacy of the Tibetan treatment for arthritis.
Tibetans in the refugee communities in Northern India are exposed to both traditional Tibetan and Western medicine. For Tibetans suffering from arthritis (or trung-bo), the Tibetan treatment was compared with the Western treatment in an open randomized controlled trial. On a significance level of 0.0005, this trial demonstrated that for these Tibetans, their indigenous treatment worked better than the Western treatment for improved limb mobility.
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Institute of Biological Anthropology, Oxford University, UK.
D001168:Arthritis / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D016059:Range of Motion, Articular; D012036:Refugees; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D018609:Tibet; D016896:Treatment Outcome