Wet Cupping Therapy Improves Local Blood Perfusion and Analgesic Effects in Patients with Nerve-Root Type Cervical Spondylosis

Xiang-wen Meng; Ying Wang; Sheng-ai Piao; Wen-tao Lv; Cheng-hui Zhu; Ming-yuan Mu; Dan-dan Li; Hua-peng Liu; Yi Guo

doi:10.1007/s11655-017-2925-7

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Wet Cupping Therapy Improves Local Blood Perfusion and Analgesic Effects in Patients with Nerve-Root Type Cervical Spondylosis

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- Wet Cupping Therapy Improves Local Blood Perfusion and Analgesic Effects in Patients with Nerve-Root Type Cervical Spondylosis
- Wet Cupping Therapy Improves Local Blood Perfusion and Analgesic Effects in Patients with Nerve-Root Type Cervical Spondylosis
- 中国结合医学杂志（英文版） 2018年24卷第11期页码：830-834
- Affiliations：
  
  College of Acupuncture and Massage, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine,Tianjin,China
- Author bio：
- Funds：
  
  Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81273673) and Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, Tianjin Health Bureau, China (No. 11027)
- DOI：10.1007/s11655-017-2925-7
  中图分类号：
- 纸质出版日期：2018，
  
  网络出版日期：2018-1-15，
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Meng, Xw., Wang, Y., Piao, Sa. et al. Wet Cupping Therapy Improves Local Blood Perfusion and Analgesic Effects in Patients with Nerve-Root Type Cervical Spondylosis., Chin. J. Integr. Med. 24, 830–834 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11655-017-2925-7

Xiang-wen Meng, Ying Wang, Sheng-ai Piao, et al. Wet Cupping Therapy Improves Local Blood Perfusion and Analgesic Effects in Patients with Nerve-Root Type Cervical Spondylosis[J]. Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine, 2018,24(11):830-834.
Meng, Xw., Wang, Y., Piao, Sa. et al. Wet Cupping Therapy Improves Local Blood Perfusion and Analgesic Effects in Patients with Nerve-Root Type Cervical Spondylosis., Chin. J. Integr. Med. 24, 830–834 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11655-017-2925-7 DOI：

Xiang-wen Meng, Ying Wang, Sheng-ai Piao, et al. Wet Cupping Therapy Improves Local Blood Perfusion and Analgesic Effects in Patients with Nerve-Root Type Cervical Spondylosis[J]. Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine, 2018,24(11):830-834. DOI： 10.1007/s11655-017-2925-7.

摘要

To observe wet cupping therapy (WCT) on local blood perfusion and analgesic effects in patients with nerve-root type cervical spondylosis (NT-CS). Fifty-seven NT-CS patients were randomly divided into WCT group and Jiaji acupoint-acupuncture (JA) group according a random number table. WCT group (30 cases) was treated with WCT for 10 min

and JA group (27 cases) was treated with acupuncture for 10 min. The treatment efficacies were evaluated with a Visual Analogue Scale (VAS). Blood perfusion at Dazhui (GV 14) and Jianjing (GB 21) acupoints (affected side) was observed with a laser speckle flowmetry

and its variations before and after treatment in both groups were compared as well. In both groups

the VAS scores significantly decreased after the intervention (P<0.01)

while the blood perfusion at the two acupoints significantly increased after intervention (P<0.05); however

the increasement magnitude caused by WCT was obvious compared with JA (P<0.05). WCT could improve analgesic effects in patients with NT-CS

which might be related to increasing local blood perfusion of acupunct points.

Abstract

and its variations before and after treatment in both groups were compared as well. In both groups

the VAS scores significantly decreased after the intervention (P<0.01)

while the blood perfusion at the two acupoints significantly increased after intervention (P<0.05); however

the increasement magnitude caused by WCT was obvious compared with JA (P<0.05). WCT could improve analgesic effects in patients with NT-CS

which might be related to increasing local blood perfusion of acupunct points.

关键词

wet cuppingnerve-root type cervical spondylosisblood perfusion amountacupunctureJiaji acupoint

Keywords

wet cuppingnerve-root type cervical spondylosisblood perfusion amountacupunctureJiaji acupoint

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