Lacticaseibacillus casei and Improved Hand Function

• Oral administration of Lactobacillus casei Shirota improves recovery of hand functions after distal radius fracture among elder patients: a placebo-controlled, double-blind, and randomized trial.

  • 2019-08-14
  • RCT
  • Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research 14(1)
  • • Chunhua Zhang
    • Sujuan Xue
    • Yong Wang
    • Dan Yu
    • Limei Hua
    • Chunhua Guo
    • Dawei Wang
    • Min Lei

  • PubMed: 31412879
  • DOI: 10.1186/s13018-019-1310-y

  5 Insights on

  • Improved Hand Function

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  MHQ score, radial deviation and inclination, and ulnar deviation and variance of patients on oral LcS displayed a significantly faster improvement in comparison to those receiving placebo

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes