Study On The Difference Of Symptoms And Temperature Before And After The Treatment In The Palm With Thermosensitive Moxibustion In Patients With C7 Compressed Cervical Spondylotic Radiculopathy

Objective:To observe symptom improvement and temperature changes between before and after the treatment in the middle palmar area with thermosensitive moxibustion in patients with C7 compressed cervical spondylotic radiculopathy(CSR),and the correlation between them.Methods:1.Subject investigated: a total of 30 patients with C7 compressed CSR were enrolled as subjects.2.Test steps: Chen Rixin's thermosensitive moxibustion procedure(circling moxibustion,round-trip moxibustion of the meridian,birdpecking moxibustion,warming moxibustion)was used to detect the thermosensitive points in the middle palmar area.Record the time and location of all the thermosensitive points,and the form of thermosensitization.A point where the infrared thermography temperature rises most is set to the most thermosensitive point,and then two courses of thermosensitive moxibustion treatment were used to the most thermosensitive point.After thermosensitive moxibustion treatment,infrared thermography was collected once more.Symptom scale score was used both before and after thermosensitive moxibustion.3.Evaluation and analysis: Symptom scale of Tianzhongjingjiu cervical spondylosis was used to Evaluation and analysis.Infrared thermography analysis system was used to statistical the temperature of the palmar areas and the most thermosensitive point.SPSS21.0 system was used to analysis all the datas.The symptoms and temperature changes before and after the treatment of thermosensitive moxibustion the in the middle palmar area were observed,analyzed these changes and the correlation.Results:1.Thermosensitive points: the form of it most were thermal expansion(46.7%),and it most appeared in the area near the Lao Gong acupoint(42.9%).2.There were significant positive correlation between the most thermosensitive point temperature D-value and the each subarea palmar surface temperature Dvalue(P < 0.01,correlation coefficient > 0.467).3.Average temperature of the middle palmar surface: the temperature of the affected side was higher than that before thermosensitive moxibustion(P < 0.05),the temperature of the affected side was lower than that of the uninjured side(P < 0.05),the difference of bilateral temperature was narrowed after treatment compared with that before the study(P < 0.05).4.The total effective rate of 30 subjects was 46.67% after treatment.The scale score was increased and the numbness and / or pain symptoms of fingers were significantly improved after treatment(P < 0.05).5.There was a significant positive correlation between the middle palmar surface temperature D-value and the most thermosensitive point temperature D-value(P < 0.01,correlation coefficient > 0.467).The scale score D-value and each subarea palmar surface temperature D-value is uncorrelated(P > 0.05).The scale score Dvalue and the most thermosensitive point temperature D-value is uncorrelated(P > 0.05).The the scale score D-value and the bilateral middle palmar surface temperature D-value is uncorrelated(P > 0.05).Conclusion:1.Thermosensitive moxibustion on the middle palmar area in patients with C7 compressed CSR could only improve finger pain and / or numbness.2.There was no rule of the most thermosensitive points temperature changes before and after the treatment in the middle palmar area with thermosensitive moxibustion in patients with C7 compressed CSR.3.There was no specific correlation between symptom improvement and temperature changes between before and after the treatment in the middle palmar area with thermosensitive moxibustion in patients with C7 compressed CSR.