title: Efficacy of the Tibetan treatment for arthritis.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biological Anthropology, Oxford University, UK.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ryan
mesh_terms: 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