Clinical Observation Of The Treatment Of Fibromyalgia Syndrome By Court Therapy

Fibromyalgia Syndromeis is known as fibromyalgia in clinic. It could cause whole body in pain and uncomfortable but the causes are currently not determined. It is a common disease in clinic. Along with the pain and other factors, the quality of patients' lives is seriously affected. The patient would also suffer from anxiety, depression, exhaustion and dyssomnia.Due to the statistical information from other countries, it is more often for female to catch the disease than male. In recent years, the diagnosis rate is getting higher year by year in China,because more and more effort has been made on the research of the disease. Usually, patients would visit departments of Rheumatology, Acupuncture, Massage or Pain Treatment as their symptom is mainly pain. The demand of easement of pain and other mental symptoms has been increasing. It motivates the clinic doctors to actively seek for more effective treatments and skills.For Traditional Chinese medicine, there are unique advantages in treating this disease,and those various treatments are quite experienced. In the understanding of traditional Chinese medicine, this disease belongs to the category of "bi" or "yu". It is mainly caused by deficiency of blood &vital energy and bad mental condition. According to a famous Chinese medicine book ?Lingshu?,human organs have specific influences on hearth conditions.According to Chinese medicine, livers decide the mental conditions. Livers and gallbladders strongly influence on each other and dominant the functional activities of vital energy. So,livers and guts are strongly connected with this disease. In Chinese medicine, doctors coordinate the vital energy of livers and guts as the main treatment method. The understanding of the disease for modern medicine is focusing on the disorder of the pain sense system function. Treatments are usually anti-depress medicine, anti-convulsion medicine and pain killers, all taken orally. However, the side effect is considerable and patients have difficulties to take.The royal tendon-soothing maneuver originated from the Shangsiyuan Chuobanchu(Health care division in the internal affair department, mainly for royal needs) in Qing dynasty,succeeded by Professor Shoushan Liu. Professor Liu summarized eight methods of tendon-soothing maneuver to treat muscle and tendon disease and achieved great curative effect. In the clinical,after treated by the royal tendon-soothing maneuver treatment, the patients feel much better in their professional and social life. In clinical practice, this technique is safe and effective, patient compliance is good, through the relative standardization of the technique step, in the clinic has certain value for promotion.Objective: This research is aimed at finding a secure and effective treatment on fibromyalgia. Through observation of the royal tendon-soothing maneuver treatment on fibromyalgia, the improvement of the clinic condition, the change of rating of pain, the change of quality of lives and the numbers of pressure point after six weeks treatment,the analysis through statistics will provide objective comments on the curative effect for the royal tendon-soothing maneuver treatment on fibromyalgia to discuss and search.Method: In clinic, 30Fibromyalgia patients that fulfill the admittance standards and with complete records were treated with the royal tendon-soothing maneuver treatment for six weeks. FIQ (fibromyalgia impact questionnaire) were provided to them before and after the treatment to document the NRS (numerical rating scale) and numbers of pressure point to analyze the differences through statistics.Result: After six weeks royal tendon-soothing maneuver treatment, due to the FIQ results,NRS and numbers of pressure point decreased, the differences have statistical significance(P<0.05).Conclusion: It is clear that the royal tendon-soothing maneuver have specific clinic curative effect on fibromyalgia.