Clinically randomized controlled study on abdominal acupuncture for treatment of cervical spondylosis

To compare clinical therapeutic effects of abdominal acupuncture and traditional acupuncture on cervical spondylosis (CS). Sixty-two cases of neck or nerve-root type CS were randomly divided into an observation group (n=32) treated by abdominal acupuncture at Zhongwan (CV 12), Guanyuan (CV 4) and ot...

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Published inZhōngguó zhēnjiǔ Vol. 27; no. 9; p. 652
Main Authors Guo, Yuan-qi, Chen, Li-yi, Fu, Wen-bin, Xu, Ming-zhu, Ou, Xuan-ming
Format Journal Article
LanguageChinese
Published China 01.09.2007
Subjects
Abdomen
Acupuncture Therapy - methods
Adult
Aged
Cervical Vertebrae
Female
Humans
Male
Medicine, Chinese Traditional
Middle Aged
Spinal Osteophytosis - therapy
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Summary:To compare clinical therapeutic effects of abdominal acupuncture and traditional acupuncture on cervical spondylosis (CS). Sixty-two cases of neck or nerve-root type CS were randomly divided into an observation group (n=32) treated by abdominal acupuncture at Zhongwan (CV 12), Guanyuan (CV 4) and others, and a control group (n=30) treated by traditional acupuncture at Fengchi (GB 20) and cervical Jiaji (EX-B 2), etc.. Simplified McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ) and clinical therapeutic effects were served as the objective indexes. Their clinical therapeutic effects were compared after the first session of treatment, at the end of therapeutic course and 3 months after the end of treatment. The two groups had a same effective rate of 100.0%. All items of MPQ in these two groups after treatment and 3 months after the end of treatment significantly improved, and in the observation group the differences in the PRI feeling score before and after the first treatment, and the difference of the total PRI scores after t
ISSN:0255-2930