The reason for acupuncture on the other side of the sore spot, scientific evidence has emerged
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In particular, the treatment response was about twice as high in patients with a large difference in left and right pulse strength.
Professor Baek Yong-hyun, Park Yeon-cheol, and Lee Dong-min's team from the Department of Bedding at Gangdong Kyunghee University Hospital, and a team of oriental doctors Park Shin-woo, Kim Yoon-ah, and Kim Gong-bin at Hyundong Oriental Medicine Hospital drew these results by retrospectively analyzing the medical records of 109 patients with unilateral musculoskeletal pain through joint research. This study is the first to demonstrate that 'Difference in left and right pulse strength' can be an important clinical indicator in predicting the effectiveness of the traditional acupuncture treatment 'Geoja acupuncture', and the results were published in the latest issue of the SCIE-level international academic journal 'Journal of Pain Research'.
◇Why do you put your saliva in a place that doesn't hurt?
In oriental medicine clinics, acupuncture is placed on the left arm or leg of a patient with pain in the right shoulder.
This is a technique that stimulates the meridians on the other side of the pain to control the imbalance of the body and relieve pain by stimulating the meridians on the other side of the 黃帝 and the 鑑 of Dongui Bogam. In domestic clinical trials, gauze acupuncture, along with distal blood (a method of placing a needle in a blood spot away from the pain area), is a treatment used by many oriental doctors, but scientific evidence on how the treatment response varies from patient to patient was insufficient.
◇The difference in pulse strength is the key to the treatment effect
The research team paid attention to the oriental diagnostic element 'Mac strength difference'. This is to evaluate how different the forces of the left and right veins differ by pointing at the veins of both wrists, and has traditionally been used in oriental medicine as an indicator of body imbalance or symptom bias. To see if this traditional diagnostic concept is also related to actual clinical effects, the research team compared patients' pain and functional changes after the treatment of porcine acupuncture according to the presence or absence of a difference in pulse strength.
As a result of the analysis, it was found that the patient group with a clear difference in pulse intensity had almost twice the amount of pain reduction than the patient group without difference. In the case of patients with upper extremity (shoulder and arm) pain, the patient group with the difference in pulse intensity decreased by an average of 54.7%, showing a much greater improvement than the 31.3% decrease in the patient group without difference. In patients with lower extremity (knee and leg) pain, the patient group with the difference in pulse strength improved by 56.3% and the patient group without the difference improved by 29.5%.
The effect of the magnetic needle method was also confirmed to be significantly different in the range of joint motion (ROM). Of the 22 people with joint movement restrictions, 87.5% of the group with the difference in pulse strength improved the range of joint movement, while only 16.7% of the group with no difference improved their function. This demonstrates that the traditional diagnostic factor of 'Mac intensity difference' can be an important indicator of the actual treatment response, rather than the same action for all patients.
◇Modern verification of the concept of diagnosing traditional oriental medicine
Professor Park Yeon-cheol of the Department of Bedding at Gangdong Kyunghee University Hospital suggested that the difference in pulse strength could be used as an objective indicator to predict the therapeutic effect of the magnetic acupuncture method, as this is one of the first studies to examine the clinical significance of the magnetic acupuncture method recorded in 『Emperor's Naegyeong" and"Dongui Bogam" through patient data", he explained. In addition, Professor Baek Yong-hyun said, "The difference in pulse strength has been an important diagnostic factor in determining the patient's body imbalance for a long time in oriental medicine"Grocer acupuncture will be of great help in expanding patient-specific pain treatment strategies because of its low risk of procedures and good combination with treating various musculoskeletal diseases"
This study has significance as an important starting point for verifying the traditional diagnostic concept in modern clinical practice by collaborating with a research team at a university hospital and a clinical field in oriental medicine. Based on the results of this retrospective analysis, the research team is pushing to develop a device that can objectively measure the difference in pulse strength, and plans to systematically establish a clinical basis for segmented customized treatment strategies for musculoskeletal pain patients by upgrading the study to prospective observational studies and even randomized control clinical studies for more accurate verification.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
