Di Carlo Marco, Beci Giacomo, Salaffi Fausto
Rheumatological Clinic, Università Politecnica Delle Marche, Jesi, (Ancona), Italy.
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2020 Feb 25;2020:9869250. doi: 10.1155/2020/9869250. eCollection 2020.
The treatment of fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is still far from being optimally coded, and pharmacological strategies are often unsatisfactory. Acupuncture plays a role among nonpharmacological intervention approaches; however, there is still no clarity as to when to integrate it into therapy. The objective of this study is to explore the role of acupuncture, in terms of efficacy on main disease severity measures and pain features, in patients with nonresponsive disease, defining nonresponsive FMS characterized by a revised Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQ-R) ≥39 and a Patient Health Questionnaire 15-item (PHQ15) ≥5 despite optimal drug therapy. Patients were treated with weekly sessions, for a total of eight acupuncture sessions. At the baseline and at the end of the treatment cycle, a comprehensive clinical evaluation was carried out to evaluate improvements in terms of disease severity and impact on neuropathic pain features (measured with the painDETECT questionnaire (PDQ)) and pain catastrophizing (measured with the Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS)). At the end of the eight-week treatment, patients experienced a significant improvement in all evaluated parameters (for FIQ-R, PDQ, and PHQ15 < 0.0001, for PCS =0.001). Of particular note is the effectiveness on manifestations that are difficult to treat such as neuropathic pain features and on negative psychological perceptions such as pain catastrophizing. It can be stated that acupuncture can be proposed also in phases of high severity of disease. Intervention with multimodal strategies, including acupuncture, could be of great benefit to patients.
纤维肌痛综合征(FMS)的治疗方法仍远未达到最佳编码状态,药物治疗策略往往也不尽人意。针灸在非药物干预方法中发挥着作用;然而,对于何时将其纳入治疗仍不明确。本研究的目的是探讨针灸在难治性疾病患者中对主要疾病严重程度指标和疼痛特征的疗效作用,难治性FMS定义为尽管进行了最佳药物治疗,但修订后的纤维肌痛影响问卷(FIQ-R)≥39且患者健康问卷15项(PHQ15)≥5。患者每周接受一次针灸治疗,共进行八次。在基线和治疗周期结束时,进行了全面的临床评估,以评估疾病严重程度的改善情况以及对神经性疼痛特征(用疼痛检测问卷(PDQ)测量)和疼痛灾难化(用疼痛灾难化量表(PCS)测量)的影响。在为期八周的治疗结束时,患者在所有评估参数上均有显著改善(FIQ-R、PDQ和PHQ15的P<0.0001,PCS的P=0.001)。特别值得注意的是,针灸对诸如神经性疼痛特征等难以治疗的表现以及疼痛灾难化等负面心理认知具有有效性。可以说,在疾病严重程度较高的阶段也可以采用针灸治疗。包括针灸在内的多模式策略干预可能对患者大有裨益。
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