Chronic fatigue syndrome treated by the traditional Chinese proce-dure abdominal tuina： a randomized controlled clinical trial

OBJECTIVE： To evaluate the effect of the tradition-al Chinese procedure abdominal Tuina （AT） onchronic fatigue syndrome （CFS）.METHODS＂ This randomized, single assessor-blind-ed clinical trial was carried out from May 2014 toApril 2015. Eighty participants in the trial were di-vided randomly into two groups： experimentalgroup and control. The experimental group （40 cas-es） was treated by AT and the control group （40 cas-es） by acupuncture. Each treatment was conductedonce a day, 5 d for one course, at an interval of 2 dbetween each course. The whole treatment courselasted for 4 weeks. To ascertain the effect of AT andacupuncture, Fatigue Scale-14 （FS-14）, Self-ratingAnxiety Scale （SAS） and Hamilton Rating Scale forDepression （HAMD） scores were used before and af-ter treatment. Patients were followed up for3 months after treatment.