Effect of Rehabilitation by Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine on Cervical Spondylotic Vertebral Arteriopathy / 中国康复理论与实践

ABSTRACT

@#Objective To observe the effect of acupuncture therapy combined with medicine ion ducted by intermediate frequency electricity on vertebral artery type of cervical spondylosis.Methods60 patients with vertebral artery type of cervical spondylosis were divided into the acupuncture combined with medicine ion ducted by intermediate frequency electricity group (group A) and acupuncture group (group B) with 30 cases in each group. The group A was treated by acupuncture combined with medicine ion ducted by intermediate frequency electricity and the group B was treated by acupuncture only.ResultsThe cure rate and the efficiency rate were 70% and 93% in the group A, 33.3% and 90% in thegroup B respectively. The therapeutic effect of the group A was obviously superior to that of the group B ( P<0.05).ConclusionThe treatment of acupuncture combined with medicine ion ducted by intermediate frequency electricity shows an obvious effect on vertebral artery type of cervical spondylosis.