Lumbosacral Pricking Blood Therapy Combined With Acupuncture Has Significant Effect On Qi Blood Stasis Type Dysmenorrhea

BackgroundPrimary dysmenorrhea is defined as periodically pain in the lower abdomen occurring just before or during menstruation, without any other diseases. Prevalence rates are as high as 90 percent. Initial presentation of primary dysmenorrhea typically occurs in adolescence. It reduced quality of life in women.Current understanding implicates that an excessive or imbalanced amount of prostanoids and possibly eicosanoids released from the endometrium during menstruation. Uterine hypercontractility, reduced uterine blood flow, and increased peripheral nerve hypersensitivity induce pain. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications are the mainstay of treatment, with the addition of oral contraceptive pills when necessary. But many people are concerned about side effects.In recent years, the application of acupuncture and moxibustion for treatment of dysmenorrhea is more and more widely. Studies have shown that acupuncture and moxibustion has good therapeutic effects on dysmenorrhea, and it is safe without side effects.ObjectiveThis study aimed to explore the clinical efficacy and safety through randomized controlled observation of lumbosacral pricking blood therapy combined with acupuncture for treatment of qi stagnation and blood stasis type of primary dysmenorrhea.Methods70 patients meet the criteria of the study. The patients were randomly divided into two groups:the treatment group (35 cases) and control group (35 cases). The treament group take the alumbosacral pricking blood therapy combined with acupuncture, and the control group take the acupunture therapy only.At last,64 patients finished the study. The clinical data, such as VAS score, Symptom score and clinical curative effect are collected. Then we sort out and analyse the data by using SPSS19.0.ResultsThe experimental group with 31 participants had an effective rate of 84.4% after three-month treatment (9 recovery cases,13 markedly cases,5 effective cases and 4 invalid cases). Three month after the treatment, an effective rate of 96.8% appeared (13 recovery cases,12 markedly cases,4 effective cases and 1 invalid cases). The control group with 33 participants had an effective rate of 81.8% after three-month treatment (14 recovery cases,7markedly cases, 6 effective cases and 6 invalid cases), and an effective rate of 75.8% three month after the treatment (11 recovery cases,6 markedly cases,8 effective cases and 8 invalid cases). In addition, the results indicated that both therapies were significant in three-month treatment (P<0.05), the evaluation of Symptom scores between two groups had a significant difference three months after treatment (P<0.05). in the control group, the significant differentia existed between three-month and three-month after the treatments (P<0.05).ConclusionLumbosacral pricking blood therapy combined with acupuncture and acupuncture therapy only both contributed certain effects to the improvement of dysmenorrhea. The recent effect is the same, however, The acupunture cooperated with pricking blood therapy was more effective for long-term treatment. Considering only the analgesic effect, Pricking blood therapy combined with acupuncture method is obviously better than simple acupuncture method.