Acupuncture Plus Dry Needling, an Effective Treatment Method for Chronic Neck Pain

lranian journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases

Farnaz Khatami³  Parisa Nejati¹  Hooman Angoorani¹  Reza Mousavi² 

[1] Department of Sports Medicine, Rasool Akram Hospital, Iran University Of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran;Department of Sports Medicine, Iranian Red Crescent Comprehensive Center for Rehabilitation, Tehran, IR Iran;Faculty of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran

关键词: Neck Pain;    Acupuncture;    Trigger point;    Complementary Therapies;   

DOI  :  10.17795/semj27942

学科分类：基础医学

来源: Shiraz University of Medical Sciences

【 摘 要 】

Background:Inrecentyears,acupuncturehasattractedmuchattentionasacomplementarytherapyinthemanagementofchronicneckpain,butthedefiniteeffectofthismethodhasnotyetbeenproveninreducingpainandimprovingfunction.Objectives:Thisstudywasconductedtoevaluatetheeffectsofacupunctureplusdryneedlinginrelievingchronicneckpainanditslastingeffectsforupto3monthsaftertreatment.PatientsandMethods:Thirty-eightpatientswithchronicneckpainwereincludedinthisstudy.Eachpatientreceived10minutesofacupunctureintwoforms(acupointsandtriggerpointneedling),twiceaweekfor6weeks.TheacupointswereGB20,GB21,BL10,BL12,BL18,DU14,SI11,andSI13.Simultaneously,triggerpointsintrapeziusmusclesalsotookneedle.Theneckdisabilityindex(NDI)andneckpainanddisabilityscale(NPDS)questionnaireswerecompletedbythepatientsbeforeperforminginterventionandagainat6weeksand3monthsaftertheintervention,andtheobtaineddatawerestatisticallyanalyzed.Results:MeanNPDSscoreuponadmissionwas56.3±16.1,whichdroppedto20.9±19.4attheendof6weeksoftreatment(Plt;0.001).Attheendof3months,thescorereached20.3±26.6;althoughrecoverywassignificantcomparedtothestartoftreatment,itwasnotsignificantcomparedtotheendof6weeks(P=0.84).MeanNDIscoreatpre-interventionwas20.3±7.5,whichreducedto7.3±6.7after6weeksoftreatment(Plt;0.001).After3months,itdecreasedto5.9±8.4;andalthoughrecoverywassignificant(Plt;0.001)comparedtothetimeofadmission,itwasnotstatisticallysignificantcomparedtotheendof6weeksoftreatment(P=0.27).Conclusions:Acupunctureplusdryneedlingisaneffectiveshort-aswellasmid-termtreatmentmethodforchronicneckpain.Theresultofthisstudyseemstobethecornerstoneoffurtherresearches,whichevaluatetheneweffectivetreatmentsforchronicneckpain.

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