Research On Effect Of Self-exercise Therapy Intervention For "Cold Feet" Female Students

Research purposes: Fear for winter coldness is a common phenomenon for female in sub-health state, and "cold feet" is a major factor which is prevailing and disturbing to girls. Continuous cold hands and feet are likely to cause frostbite and other diseases, such as less menstruation, irregular menstruation, and even infertility. Studies have shown that the incidence of winter "cold feet" is 83%, among 37% of which carries severe symptoms, and is usually accompanied by some other parts’ fear for cold, such as back, shoulder, arm, waist or abdomen.Currently, researches for “cold feet” mainly focus on the causes and countermeasures, in a theoretical perspective. This study combines the traditional health preserving knowledge and related theories from Chinese medicine and Chinese Taoist culture, conducts practical researches about the clinical efficacy of female students after the investigation on the causes and characteristics of "cold feet" as well as the discussion and exploration with experts from the discipline of Chinese medicine health preserving, Taoist health preserving, sports medicine. From the observation on systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, pulse; tongue condition, pulse condition; body surface temperature; nail fold microcirculation and other aspects, this article discusses the "self-exercise therapy" effect on women "cold feet", and provides some referential data at the same time.Research methods: We took 90 female students from Jiangxi Normal University as subjects, all of who met the standard for "cold feet". The 90 subjects were randomly divided into group A(self-exercise therapy), B(ordinary exercise), C(control group). Group A and B were given a three-month intervention in different ways. After the experiment, we detected the systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, pulse; tongue condition, pulse condition; body surface temperature; changes in the nail fold microcirculation and other indicators..Results: 1. After the test, both Group A and B scored lower on “cold feet” symptom than before; compared with Group C, A shows a much more significant decrease than B, between which there is a very obvious difference, suggesting that self-exercise therapy is more effective in improving cold feet than ordinary exercise therapy.2.The systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, pulse rate have decreased, while Group C has not shown such change. And between A and B, P≤0.05, this is a datum with statistical significance. These changes indicates that self-exercise therapy is more effective than ordinary exercise therapy, therefore the "cold feet" conditions have been reduced more, the cardiovascular function enjoys a better improvement and the blood circulation conditions is enhanced to a greater level.3. Subjects in A, B showed changes in tongue and pulse compared with the initial state, mainly for the fact that: 1) normal rate of tongue, pulse increased with pale tongue; 2) the number of white fur carriers decreased. Plus, the change in Group A was the most obvious, while the control Group C had no change at all.4.The body surface temperature of subjects in A, B has occurred significant or more-than-significant changes in upper and lower limbs as well as in the knee, the forehead and the vertex, mostly positive. This suggests that both self-exercise therapy and ordinary exercise therapy are on the "cold feet" with improved effect, and the effect of Group A is greater than Group B.5. During the microvascular morphology test, both the nail fold microcirculation of A and B showed a clear change in vision clarity clear tendency and bloody tendency( to normal color), while in Group C microcirculation has twisted, congested, expanded and swollen, suggesting self-exercise therapy is more effective than ordinary exercise to change the structure of the peripheral microcirculation, thereby improving the "cold feet."Conclusion: Self-exercise therapy is able to improve the "cold feet" symptoms effectively through regulating their blood pressure, pulse, tongue condition, pulse condition, thereby enhancing their cardiovascular function and physical fitness, promoting distal nail fold microcirculation and increasing its distal body surface temperature.