Baseline Characteristics of Included Review Article
| First author (year) | Design | Sample size | Age/sex | Research subject or target disease | Treatment intervention or technique | Measurement outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gwon (2011)16) | Literature | 85 | NR | Academic organization on manipulative and domestic manual therapy | Domestic manual therapy | Massage, chiropractics, acupressure, chuna, osteopathy, reflexology, mulligan techniques, dongbang whalbub, Kaltenborn-Evjenth orthopedic manual therapy are major subject that studied in South Korea. |
| Kim (2010)17) | Literature | 18 | NR | Clinical trial of therapeutic exercise and manual therapy for frozen shoulder treatment | Therapeutic exercise, manual therapy | Therapeutic exercise and manual therapy researched in this study showed the effect that shoulder pain and disability index was decreased and shoulder movement was improved. |
| Kweon (2011)15) | Literature | 43 | NR | Osteopathic manual therapy relationship with chuna therapy for meridian sinew system | Osteopathic manual therapy, chuna therapy | Osteopathic manual therapy techniques can be used in diagnosis and treatment of meridian muscle theory, because osteopathy and the oriental medicine have many similarities in theoretical background. So osteopathic manual therapy technique can be useful in oriental medicine treatment techniques. |
| Kim (2020)18) | Systematic | 18 | NR | Economic evaluation of manual therapy for musculoskeletal diseases | Manual therapy | In 10 out of 18 studies manual therapy was cost effective in the treatment of musculoskeletal diseases. The benefits and detriments of the manual therapy interventions found in many of the reported disease treatments cannot be reliably concluded because of the lack of methodolo- gical quality and clinical variety of the included studies. |
| Park (2016)6) | Literature | 17 | NR | Tool-based manual therapy for musculoskeletal diseases | Guasha, IASTM | Diseases of the vertebral column were the main target for tool- based manual therapy treatments, and stainless steel was the most popular and safe material used. |
NR: not reported, IASTM: instrument assisted soft tissue manipulation.
