Objective:To observe the clinical effect of"scapular heat penetration"technique of acupuncture in treatment of scapulohumeral periarthritis.Design:It was a single-central randomized controlled trial,the part...Objective:To observe the clinical effect of"scapular heat penetration"technique of acupuncture in treatment of scapulohumeral periarthritis.Design:It was a single-central randomized controlled trial,the participants,outcome assessors and statisticians were blinded.Setting:The trial was undertaken in Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion,Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine,Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine,from June 2021 to January 2022.Participants:Sixty-seven patients with scalpulohumeral periarthritis were participated.Interventions:In the control group,the routine acupuncture was given,while in the trial group,the"scapular heat penetration"technique of acupuncture was adopted.The intervention was delivered once every two days,3 treatments a week;and one course included 9 treatments.Before the 1st treatment and after the 9th treatment,the symptoms and physical signs were observed and recorded in each group.Outcomes:Primary outcome:the score of visual analogy scale(VAS)before treatment and after treatment completion.Secondary outcomes:the range of movement(ROM)of shoulder joint,the score of Japanese Orthopaedic Association(JOA)of shoulder joint and the infrared thermal imaging temperature around the shoulder.Results:A total of 102 cases were collected,72 cases of them were eligible and 5 cases were withdrawn.Sixty-seven cases were included in analysis.In the within-group comparison,VAS score,ROM and JOA score as well as the shoulder temperature were all ameliorated after 9 treatments in either the trial group or the control group,compared with those before treatment(P<0.05).In the comparison between two groups,after 9 treatments,VAS score in the trial group was lower than that of the control group(P<0.05);and the improvements in ROM and shoulder temperature in the trial group were better than those of the control group(P<0.05).No adverse reactions were found in the two groups.Conclusion:Both the"scapular heat penetration"technique of acupuncture and the conventional 展开更多
基金Supported by Shanghai three-year action plan for accelerating the development of Traditional Chinese Medicine(2018-2020):ZY(2018-2020)-ZYJS-07Research project o Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine,Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine(2019-2020):2018YJ12.
文摘Objective:To observe the clinical effect of"scapular heat penetration"technique of acupuncture in treatment of scapulohumeral periarthritis.Design:It was a single-central randomized controlled trial,the participants,outcome assessors and statisticians were blinded.Setting:The trial was undertaken in Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion,Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine,Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine,from June 2021 to January 2022.Participants:Sixty-seven patients with scalpulohumeral periarthritis were participated.Interventions:In the control group,the routine acupuncture was given,while in the trial group,the"scapular heat penetration"technique of acupuncture was adopted.The intervention was delivered once every two days,3 treatments a week;and one course included 9 treatments.Before the 1st treatment and after the 9th treatment,the symptoms and physical signs were observed and recorded in each group.Outcomes:Primary outcome:the score of visual analogy scale(VAS)before treatment and after treatment completion.Secondary outcomes:the range of movement(ROM)of shoulder joint,the score of Japanese Orthopaedic Association(JOA)of shoulder joint and the infrared thermal imaging temperature around the shoulder.Results:A total of 102 cases were collected,72 cases of them were eligible and 5 cases were withdrawn.Sixty-seven cases were included in analysis.In the within-group comparison,VAS score,ROM and JOA score as well as the shoulder temperature were all ameliorated after 9 treatments in either the trial group or the control group,compared with those before treatment(P<0.05).In the comparison between two groups,after 9 treatments,VAS score in the trial group was lower than that of the control group(P<0.05);and the improvements in ROM and shoulder temperature in the trial group were better than those of the control group(P<0.05).No adverse reactions were found in the two groups.Conclusion:Both the"scapular heat penetration"technique of acupuncture and the conventional
