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

作     者：MENG Xiang-wen WANG Ying PIAO Sheng-ai LV Wen-tao ZHU Cheng-hui MU Ming-yuan LI Dan-dan LIU Hua-peng GUO Yi 无

作者机构：College of Acupuncture and Massage Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine 

出 版 物：《Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine》 (中国结合医学杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2018年第24卷第11期

页      面：830-834页

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学科分类：1007[医学-药学(可授医学、理学学位)] 1005[医学-中医学] 100508[医学-中医骨伤科学] 1002[医学-临床医学] 10[医学] 

基　　金：Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81273673) Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine,Tianjin Health Bureau,China(No.11027) 

主　　题：wet cupping nerve-root type cervical spondylosis blood perfusion amount acupuncture Jiaji acupoint 

摘      要：Objective： To observe wet cupping therapy（WCT） on local blood perfusion and analgesic effects in patients with nerve-root type cervical spondylosis（NT-CS）. Methods： 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. Results： 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）. Conclusion： WCT could improve analgesic effects in patients with NT-CS, which might be related to increasing local blood perfusion of acupunct points.