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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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