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Table 2 Age of Patients Using TCMPT

From: Traditional Chinese medicine paraffin therapy: an evidence-based overview from a modern medicine perspective

Disease name

Author

Age

Inclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria

Chronic gastritis

Chen [15]

36–60 years

 

Under 18 years and over 70 years

Wang [16]

22–60 years

 

Under 18 years and over 75 years

Epigastric pain

Huang [17]

24–62 years

20–60 years

 

You [18]

46–77 years

  

High muscular tension of limb in children with spastic cerebral palsy

Zhang [19]

12–36 months

12–36 months

 

Diabetes peripheral neuropathy

Wang [20]

Median age: 69 years

  

Supraspinatus tendinitis

Wang [21]

26–70 years

  

Scapulohumeral periarthritis

Li [22]

40–65 years

  

Liu [23]

45–70 years

  

Zhu [24]

42–71 years

  

Knee osteoarthritis

Han [25]

40–75 years

  

Mu [26]

48–65 years

  

Fan [27]

42–75 years

  

Li [28]

40–75 years

  

Rheumatoid arthritis

Li [29]

21–69 years

20–70 years

 

Wang [30]

54–52 years

35–70 years

 

Jia [31]

34–65 years

18–65 years

 

Ankylosing spondylitis

Yu [32]

21–47 years

18–50 years

 

Cervical spondylopathy

Huang [33]

None

  

Qiao [34]

 

29–70 years

 

Lumbar discherniation

Huang [35]

40–78 years

  

Huang [36]

34–67 years

  

Thoracolumbar compression fracture

Liu [37]

24–84 years

  

Distal radius fracture

Li [38]

51–75 years

  

Patellar fracture

Song [39]

 

20–60 years