The Clinical Observation Of Dong-Qi Acupuncture For The Patients Of De Ouervain’s Disease

ObjectiveWe conducted a prospective randomized study about the treatment effect difference about De Quervain’s disease which was treated by the Dong-Qi acupuncture and routine acupuncture. According to the clinical observation evaluate the treatment effect. Provide an acupuncture treatment at De Quervain’s disease with good efficacy, fewer side effects, and easy operation.Methods60 patients will be divided randomly into treatment group and control group. Each group includes 30 patients.30 cases in treatment group will accept with the Dong-Qi acupuncture. While 30 cases in control group will be treated with routine acupuncture. The patients accept treatment one time a day, and take consecutive 3 times in a course. Complete treatment has 3 courses, and pause 1 day between every course. According to clinical symptoms integrals and Visual Analogous Scale (VAS) scores of before and after treatments evaluate the effect and analysis the clinical mechanism of the treatment by using the SPSS17.0 software.ResultsBefore the treatment, the difference of VAS score between the two groups were not significant (P＞0.05), the data were comparable. After adopted each acupuncture method, the VAS scores decreased in both group, and the downward trend in observed group was more remarkable and there was significant difference between the two groups (P＜0.01), which indicated that Dong-Qi acupuncture for De Quervain’s disease patients had better pain-lessening effect. According to clinical symptoms integrals, there was no significant difference between the two groups before the treatment (P＞0.05). After 3 courses of treatment, the pain, tenderness pain, swelling, and the wrist joint function scores were changed. Except for swelling, the treatment group had advantages in ameliorating the clinical symptoms. According to the clinical efficacy, in treatment group, the clinical recovery was 12 cases, markedly effective 16 cases, effective 1 cases, ineffectiveness 0 cases, the effective rate was 100.0%, while in control group, the clinical recovery was 3, markedly effective 5 cases, effective 19 cases, ineffectiveness 3 cases, the effective rate was 90.00%. The Dong-Qi acupuncture treating has better effect of clinical trial than the other.ConclusionThe results demonstrated that the method of Dong-Qi acupuncture for De Queravin’s disease, patients could remarkably alleviate the pain, ameliorate the clinical symptoms, and the active function of wrist. It has better efficacy than routine acupuncture, because Dong-Qi acupuncture has two superiorities. One is there are two therapy modes of needling and exercising. The other is it could achieve dynamic balance by dynamic regulation. There are good efficacy, few side effects, and easy operation advantages in treating De Queravin’s disease with Dong-Qi acupuncture. It is worth to be applied and spread.