Therapeutic efficacy observation on combining herbal cake-partitioned moxibustion with plum-blossom needle therapy for cervical radiculopathy
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Therapeutic efficacy observation on combining herbal cake-partitioned moxibustion with plum-blossom needle therapy for cervical radiculopathy
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J Acupunct Tuina Sci (2013), Liu, Min-juan;Wang, Kui
Abstract
Objective—To observe the clinical effect of combining Herbal cakepartitioned moxibustion with plum-blossom needle therapy for cervical radiculopathy. Methods—A total of 150 cases with cervical radiculopathy were randomly allocated into a treatment group (n=90) and a control group (n=60) at ratio of 3:2. Cases in the treatment group were treated with combining herbal cake-partitioned moxibustion with plum-blossom needle therapy, whereas cases in the control group were treated with combining Dan Shen (Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae) injection with traction. The therapeutic efficacies were evaluated by the third party after three courses of treatments. Results—The recovery and total effective rates in the treatment group were 51.1% and 97.8% respectively, versus 18.3% and 78.3% in the control group, showing statistically significant differences (both P<0.05). And there was a between-group statistical difference in the number of recovery cases in different courses of treatments (P<0.05). Conclusion—Combining herbal cake-partitioned moxibustion with plum-blossom needle therapy was more effective than combining Dan Shen (Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae) injection with traction for cervical radiculopathy, and it took effect more quickly. It is worth further popularization in clinic.
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J Acupunct Tuina Sci
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English
issn
1672-3597
issue
6
page end
366
page start
363
volume
11