Effectiveness of Tuina Therapy for Patients With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Protocol for a Multicenter, Randomized, Open-Label, Assessor-Blinded, Parallel-Group Clinical Trial

Jun Ren   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Shoujian Wang   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Sitong Fang   ¹ , MD ;   Shanda Xu   ¹ , MD ;   Chaoqun Xie   ¹ , MD ;   Ming Jin   ¹ , MD ;   Xingyu Zhou   ¹ , MD ;   Wu Li   ² , MD ;   Yan Zhao   ³ , BS ;   Xingquan Wu   ⁴ , MD ;   Cheng Wang   ⁵ , BS ;   Yanguo Wang   ⁶ , MD ;   Zhichao Gong   ² , MD ;   Jing Zhou   ³ , MD ;   Junjie Yao   ⁴ , MD ;   Xue Bai   ⁵ , MS ;   Yu Wang   ⁶ , MD ;   Min Fang   ¹ , MD ;   Lingjun Kong   ¹ , MD

¹ Department of Tuina, Shuguang Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

² Acupuncture and Tuina Rehabilitation Center, Hunan University of Chinese Medicine Second Affiliated Hospital, Changsha, China

³ Rehabilitation Medicine Center /Tuina Department, Hubei Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Wuhan, China

⁴ Department of Tuina, The Affiliated Hospital to Changchun University of Chinese Medicine, Changchun, China

⁵ Department of Tuina, Affiliated Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, China

⁶ Department of Rehabilitation, Second Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China

*these authors contributed equally