Clinical observation on needle-sticking method for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis of wind-cold-damp retention type / 中国针灸
Chinese Acupuncture & Moxibustion
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(12): 331-334, 2006.
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in Chinese
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| ID: wpr-303076
ABSTRACT
<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To observe clinical therapeutic effect of needle-sticking method on rheumatoid arthritis (RA) of wind-cold-damp retention type.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Fifty cases of such disease were divided into 2 groups in order of visiting. The treatment group (n = 30) were treated with needle-sticking method, and the control group (n = 20) with routine filiform needle therapy for 2 therapeutic courses. Total cumulative scores, numbers of both the pressure-pain joint and the swollen-distention joint, erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), rheumatoid factor (RF), C reaction protein (CRP) before and after treatment were investigated.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Both the needle-sticking method and the filiform needle therapy had an apparent therapeutic effect on RA of wind-cold-damp retention type, and the therapeutic effect for the clinical indexes in the treatment group was better than the control group, with a very significant difference in improvement of RF, the number of pressure-pain joints and the total cumulative scores as the treatment group compared with the control group (P < 0.01).</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Needle-sticking method has definite therapeutic effect on RA of wind-cold-damp retention type with obvious superiority.</p>
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WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Arthritis, Rheumatoid
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Therapeutics
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Acupuncture Points
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Acupuncture Therapy
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Methods
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Needles
Limits:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
Chinese
Journal:
Chinese Acupuncture & Moxibustion
Year:
2006
Type:
Article
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