| Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is the common name for a group of significantly debilitating medical conditions characterized by disabilities to alleviate fatigue after sleep. According to researches and clinical practices, with quickening paces of modern life and increasingly fierce competition, people’s body and mind is in a state of lasting high tension, and this kind of persistent mental stimulation affects internal organs directly, disorders internal organs’qi function and breaks the balance between qi and blood, which then causes different kinds of diseases and leads to physiological and psychological fatigue. Because of the rising Incidence, chronic fatigue syndrome have been predicted as one of the major health problems in the21st century by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is also one of current hot research topic in the medical community.Though intense study on CFS has been settled in recent years, there is still no clear conclusion for its pathological mechanism and therapy. Cupping Therapy, as the essence of Chinese medicine, which has advantages such as affirmed curative effects without side effects, and good prospects of clinical application, is known as "green therapy" and welcomed by the patient, and it will be a relatively ideal method for the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome.This research aims to observe and summary effects of the pure cupping therapy on patients’ back in the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome and its development prospect, hoping that simpler, more convenient, comfortable and easily-accepted methods can be used to cure the disease and improve the symptoms, hence to improve patients’ living qualities.Objective:To compare the clinical efficacy of moving cupping and that of flash cupping in the treatment of Chronic Fatigue.Methods:Clinical observation was conducted in the acupuncture clinic of Beijing Guang An Men Hospital, the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences.56patients were randomly divided into2groups:moving cupping group (23patients), and flash cupping group (23patients). Each patient received treatment once a week and completed one therapeutic program in six weeks. After one course of curative effect evaluation was carried out. FS-14、FAI Fatigue rating scale and the effect evaluating criteria introduced in the relevant papers published in "The foreign medical booklet of traditional Chinese medicine" were adopted to evaluate the effect. Follow-up visit was conducted one month after treatment. The data was dealt with statistics process by SPSS17.0statistical software.Results:1. The data of FS-14and FAI before and after treatment shows that both moving cupping and flash cupping have a certain effect in the treatment of Chronic Fatigue. However, moving Cupping is more effective than flash cupping.(P<0.05)2、Curative effect evaluation of the results:The assessment of the feeling of patients:95.6%of the patients in moving Cupping group (23cases) got better or cured (8of them were cured,14of them got better and1of them had ineffective treatment).81.8%of patients in Flash cupping group (22cases) got better or cured (3of them were cured,15of them got better and4of them had ineffective treatment).(P>0.05) The difference was not statistically significant. However, the results of random inquiry to some patients after one month show that patients in moving cupping group report high satisfaction.3.3patients in moving cupping group were cured after twice to four times treatment, while no patient in Flash Cupping group were cured. The patients in both groups achieved remission of symptoms in different degrees. No adverse reaction was found in both groups.Conclusions:For the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome, both Moving Cupping and Flash Cupping have a good effect, while Moving Cupping is more effective than Flash Cupping. Cupping treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome has the advantages of being safe, fast, convenient and rapid onset, which makes it easily accepted by patients. |
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