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J Thai Trad Alt Med                                   Vol. 20  No. 2  May-Aug  2022  229





































            Figure 1  The flow diagram indicating the stages of undergoing the parallel randomized trial of the medications for
                    treating patients in two groups for soft tissue injury, allocation, interventions, follow-up, loss to follow-up
                    rate, and analysis.


            treated with DFS were lost to the follow-up due   respectively, which were not statistically
            to hospital visit inconvenience. The baseline   significant different. The most frequently

            demographic data and clinical characteristic   diagnosed injuries of the subjects treated with
            of all the ninety-five participants are then   DFS were comparable to those of the subjects
            analyzed as shown in Table 1.               treated with JGS (p = 0.965), namely back

                 The female participants in this study   strain (51.06% vs. 47.92%), knee sprain (19.15%
            were the majority (68.09%) of the patients   vs. 25.00%), and shoulder sprain (12.77% vs.

            treated with DFS, while more males than     14.58%). Swelling occurred in almost all the
            females were treated with JGS. The differ-  participants. Mean VAS pain scores and
            ence between the number of male and female   patient’s global assessment values of the par-

            participants in both treatment groups was   ticipants treated with DFS and JGS were 5.60
            significant (p = 0.023). The average age of the   vs 5.94. and 3.19 vs 3.17, respectively, which

            participants in DFS and JGS groups were 41.36   were not significantly different as well. Hence,
            and 40.06 years, while the average body mass    as shown in Table 1, baseline demographic
            indices (BMI) were 24.25 and 24.90 kg/m ,   and clinical characteristics of the two treat-
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