PHYSICAL THERAPY & REHAB
Multimodal treatment effective in reducing pain in thumb carpometacarpal joint OA patients
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J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 2013;43(4):204-13. doi: 10.2519/jospt.2013.4524. Epub 2013 Mar 13
60 patients with thumb carpometacarpal (CMC) joint osteoarthritis (OA) were randomized to receive multimodal manual therapy or a sham treatment, in order to determine the efficacy of manual therapy on pain management. Following evaluations over a 2 month period, results exhibited that patients who received multimodal manual therapy experienced greater reductions in pain in comparison to those who underwent the sham treatment.
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