Clinical Study On Treatment Of Hemifacial Spasm With Pressing Moxibustion

Objective: Observe the improvement of clinical symptoms and anxiety state of patients with hemifacial spasm,which were treated by pressing moxibustion,and evaluate its’ clinical curative effect objectively,so as to provide a new direction for clinical treatment.Method: In this research,sixty hemifacial spasm patients were spanided into two groups randomly,which met the inclusion criteria of the research.Each group had thirty patients.The control group was given conventional acupuncture,and the treatment group was treated with pressing moxibustion and conventional acupuncture.Both groups were treated six times a week,one week a course,four courses in a row,which had one day off per week.The curative effect was compared after four courses of treatment.By observing and recording the variations in hemifacial spasm intensity grading(Cohen grading),frequency grading(Penn grading)and the fraction of hamilton anxiety scale(HAMA)between the two groups of patients,the difference in curative effect of the two methods were analyzed and evaluated.Result: After four course of treatment,it was found that the two groups had achieved good results in the treatment of hemifacial spasm.In the treatment group,there were eight cases,eleven cases,and seven cases in cure number,marked effect number and effective number.The total effective rate of the treatment group was 86.7 percent,while the total effective rate of the control group was only 63.3 percent.The difference between two groups was statistically significant(P<0.05).After four courses of treatment,we could know that the treatment group was preferable than the acupuncture control group in improving the hemifacial spasm intensity grading as well as hemifacial spasm frequency grading.And it was also preferable than the acupuncture control group in reducing the fraction of hamilton anxiety scale by way of analyzing and comparing various indicators in two groups.Conclusion:1.According to the fact,we could know that conventional acupuncture and pressing moxibustion combined with conventional acupuncture can improve the symptoms of hemifacial spasm and anxiety of patients.2.Compared with conventional acupuncture,pressing moxibustion combined with conventional acupuncture has preferable effect in improving the anxiety state of patients with hemifacial spasm actually.3.The effect of pressing moxibustion combined with conventional acupuncture in improving symptoms of hemifacial spasm patients was preferable than that of conventional acupuncture.And pressing moxibustion combined with conventional acupuncture could achieve preferable clinical curative effect,which is worthy of further observation and investigation.