[Clinical trials of combined therapy of an oral Chinese medicine with massage for chronic nonbacterial prostatitis]
[Article in Chinese]
Department of Urology, the First Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, ShaanXi 710061, China. shenforest@163.com
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the clinical effect of an oral Chinese medicine combined with massage of the prostate in treating chronic nonbacterial prostatitis (CNP). METHODS: Seventy-two CNP patients were randomly divided into an experimental group (oral Chinese medicine with massage) and a control group (oral Chinese medicine only). The main parameters were compared before and two months after the treatment. RESULTS: Total efficacy rates of the experimental and control groups were 90.0% and 68.6%, respectively. Compared with the controls, patients in the experiment group had a lower score on NIH-CPSI, and the difference was significant statistically (P < 0.05). CONCLUSION: The combined therapy is more effective than oral Chinese medicine alone for the treatment of CNP.
PMID: 17009541 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]