Comparison of the Effects of Leaving Needle (LN), Electrical Acupuncture (EAP) and Low Frequency Electrical Acupuncture (LFEA) / 全日本鍼灸学会雑誌

ABSTRACT

We have treated 117 patients, who visited the Pain Clinic of our Department complaining some pain 1973-1975, applying “in situ” needle, electrical acupuncture and low frequency electrical acupuncture therapy. And we have examined the immediate effects during 3 days after the treatment through patients' subjective evaluation, at what degree the state of pain was improved as compared with the state before the treatment on a scale of 1-10.<br>As the results, we classified the appearing ways of effects in 4 types continuous type (the effect lasts 3 days right after the treatment), decreasing type (the effect gradually disappears immediately after the treatment), increasing type (it slowly produces effect) and invariable type (during 3 days a slight effect or no effect is observed). And it became clear that for the duration of effect and the efficiency of the therapy the low frequency electrical acupuncture therapy is most execellent.<br>Discussion of Results:<br>Immediate good results from directly following therapy to the 2nd day after therapy were obtained in more than 70% of the cases and were especially remarkable with LFEA therapy as compared to EAP or LN therapies.