THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PRAGMATIC ACUPUNCTURE IN PATIENTS WITH PAINFUL DIABETIC NEUROPATHY:A PILOT STUDY
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PRAGMATIC ACUPUNCTURE IN PATIENTS WITH PAINFUL DIABETIC NEUROPATHY:A PILOT STUDY作者机构：Manchester Metropolitan Univeristy Guiyang Traditional Chinese Medicine College
出 版 物：《Journal of Integrative Medicine》 (结合医学学报(英文))
年 卷 期：2014年第3期
页 面：289-289页
学科分类：1005[医学-中医学] 100512[医学-针灸推拿学] 10[医学]
主 题：PDN THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PRAGMATIC ACUPUNCTURE IN PATIENTS WITH PAINFUL DIABETIC NEUROPATHY
摘 要：Background: Painful diabetic neuropathy(PDN) is a distressing and disabling complication of diabetes mellitus affecting about one-third of patients with type 2 ***: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of pragmatic acupuncture treatment in patients with ***: A single blind randomized control trial was *** patients(mean age(63.5±12.1) years) with PDN, recruited from two affiliated hospitals of Guiyang Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM) College, Guizhou Province, China participated in the *** acupuncture treatment was administered by a qualified medical doctor(also a TCM acupuncturist).Fourteen sessions of pragmatic acupuncture over 2 weeks were given to two *** Assessment of Neuropathic Symptoms and Signs(LANSS) scale was used to examine neuropathic symptoms, lower-limb pain intensity was assessed using the Visual Analogue Scale(VAS), sleep patterns was examined with the Sleep Problem Scale(SPS) and QoL was assessed with the ***-Wihtney U tests were used for group ***: There were significant differences(all P0.05) in sleep disturbance between the two groups following the ***: Traditional acupuncture was found to be an effective treatment strategy for pain and QoL in patients with *** was also effective for alleviating the clinical symptoms associated with PDN as measured by ***, traditional acupuncture may be an effective modality for managing patients with *** and acupuncturists are to be aware of these findings as they may help to improve the management of patients with this condition.
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