• 1. Program for Outcome Assessment in TCM, 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine (Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine), GuangZhou, 510120, P.R.China;
  • 2. Department of Tuina, Affiliated Hospital of Changchun University of Chinese Medicine, Changchun, 130000, P.R.China;
WU Darong, Email: darongwu@163.com
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Based on the existing clinical research of pediatric Tuina, this paper introduced the current types of pediatric Tuina and their applications in the aspect of growth of newborn babies, emotion problems, pain, respiratory system diseases, digestive system diseases, jaundice, brain and nerve system diseases. As for the clinical researches of pediatric Tuina, the authors found the challenges including different understandings of pediatric Tuina, poor quality of clinical researches, and lack of basic data regarding pediatric Tuina. Meanwhile, the authors suggested three corresponding strategies to improve the clinical researches, i.e. to extract valuable intervention methods based on clinical practice; to conduct high quality clinical studies; to gradually collect and accumulate basic data according to a certain plan.

Citation: YIN Lingjia, CAI Jianxiong, LU Taoying, WANG Lixin, WU Darong. Opportunities and challenges of pediatric Tuina: an evidence-based perspective. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2018, 18(11): 1173-1179. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.201804076 Copy

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