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Did you know that neck pain can lead to other pains and discomfort along the spine? Acupuncture works quite well to resolve this pain.
Zhongguo Zhen Jiu. 2014 Apr;34(4):325-8.[The short-term and long-term effects on neck pain caused by cervical spondylosis treated with combination ofacupuncture and moxibustion with seed-sized moxa cone].[Article in Chinese]Di Z, Jiang S, Lin XM, Fu WB.AbstractOBJECTIVE:
To evaluate the short-term and long-term effects on treatment of neck pain caused by cervical spondylosis with the combination ofacupuncture and moxibustion with seed-size moxa cone.
METHODS:
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One hundred and forty-five patients of neck pain were randomly divided into an acupuncture-moxibustion group (49 cases), anacupuncture group (48 cases) and a moxibustion group (48 cases). Acupoints of Bailao (Extra), Dazhui (GV 14), Jianzhongshu (SI15) and Zhongzhu (TE 3) were adopted for all the 3 groups. Acupuncture was applied at all the acupoints with 20 min needling retention for the acupuncture group. Moxibustion with seed-size moxa cone was used with 5 cones on each point for the moxibustion group. And both acupuncture and moxibustion with seed-size moxa cone were adopted for the acupuncture-moxibustion group. The treatment was applied once every 3 days, and 10 treatments should be finished within 4 weeks. Follow-up should be carried out for 3 months. The short-term and long-term effects were evaluated with the scores of Northwick Park Pain Questionnaire (NPQ) and McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ) as the indices of therapeutic effect.
RESULTS:
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The NPQ score and MPQ score of all the 3 groups after the treating course and the 3-month follow-up were both decreased when compared with those before the treatment (all P<0. 05). The scores of NPQ and MPQ the acupuncture-moxibustion group were lower than that of the other two groups. And the difference had obvious significance (P<0. 05). High efficiency of pain relieving for cervical spondylosis could be found in all the 3 groups, which showed that short-term and long-term effects were good for all the 3 groups. And the highest curative effect could be found inacupuncture-moxibustion group.
CONCLUSION:
Combination of acupuncture and moxibustion with seed-size moxa cone has reached a superior effect in short-term and long-term forneck pain caused by cervical spondylosis.
PMID:24946627[PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
