Clinical observation of blade needle closed release and massage for the cervical-heart syndrome / 国际中医中药杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To observe the clinical effect of Blade needle closed release and massage for the patients with cervical heart syndrome. Methods A total of 60 patientswith cervical-heart syndrome were randomly divided into the control group and the treatment groups, 30 patients in each group. Both groups were treated with rehabilitation exercises, and the treatment group were added with Blade needle closed release and massage, while the control group were added with traction. The treatments were operated once to 3 times based on the patients' condition with an interval of seven days. The symptoms, signs and effective rates were observed and compared. Results After treatment, the neck and shoulder pain (0.7 ± 0.6 vs. 0.9 ± 0.7, t=2.904), precordialgia (0.5 ± 0.5 vs. 1.0 ± 0.7, t=4.210), chest tightness (0.5 ± 0.6 vs. 0.8 ± 0.7, t=2.093), cardiopalmus (0.7 ± 0.5 vs. 1.0 ± 0.8, t=3.915), spontaneous (0.7 ± 0.5 vs. 0.8 ± 0.9, t=2.837), vertigo (1.0 ± 0.6 vs. 1.6 ± 0.8, t=2.760) scores in the treatment group were significantly lower than those in the control group (P<0.05 or P<0.01). The total effective rate of the treatment group was 93.89% (28/30), and the Control group was 66.67%(20/30). There are significantly different(χ2=4.547, P<0.05). Conclusions The method of Blade needle closed release and traction could improve the symptom of the shoulder neck and heart area of the cervical-heart syndrome.